HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080948770
Bassin de Cañada del Zorrero
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 : Nueve de Julio, Telsen
Sub-basin area
660,6km²
Upstream area
660,6km²
Discharge
0,67m³/s
Mean elev.
981m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 499.9 km²75.6% of basin
- 161.7 km²24.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Meseta de Somuncurá
IUCN VIProtected Nature Area
142.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 7 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°
9,5°C
Annual rain
183mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,83
Runoff
9mm/an
PET
1 100mm
AET
164mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
978cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
11%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)