HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080942390
Bassin de Río Limay
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 2 administrative regions : Collón Curá, Pilcaniyeu
Sub-basin area
688,8km²
Upstream area
26 865,8km²
Discharge
615,58m³/s
Mean elev.
826m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Limay336 km²
- Bassin de Río Collón Curá286 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 420.4 km²61.0% of basin
- 269.3 km²39.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 9 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
9,6°C
Annual rain
386mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,64
Runoff
314mm/an
PET
1 081mm
AET
335mm
Mean slope
5,5°
Water table
355cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)