HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080955720
Bassin de Arroyo Ñirihuau
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 : Languiñeo, Tehuelches
Sub-basin area
766,7km²
Upstream area
766,7km²
Discharge
34,76m³/s
Mean elev.
1 024m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 608.4 km²79.2% of basin
- 159.8 km²20.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 8 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°
6,3°C
Annual rain
392mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
1 327mm/an
PET
842mm
AET
346mm
Mean slope
4,4°
Water table
294cm
Forest
7%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)