HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080944510
Bassin de Arroyo Valcheta
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 1 administrative regions : Valcheta
Sub-basin area
283,8km²
Upstream area
283,9km²
Discharge
0,3m³/s
Mean elev.
937m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 intersecting protected areas
Meseta de Somuncurá
IUCN VIProtected Nature Area
284.20 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
10,4°C
Annual rain
207mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,82
Runoff
30mm/an
PET
1 145mm
AET
183mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
1 086cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)