HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080958510
Bassin de Río Chico
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 : Escalante
Sub-basin area
1 538,8km²
Upstream area
44 083,9km²
Discharge
206,97m³/s
Mean elev.
401m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Chico1449 km²
- Bassin de Río Chico778 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Patagonia Azul
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
1.74 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 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°
11,0°C
Annual rain
185mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,81
Runoff
42mm/an
PET
977mm
AET
171mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
533cm
Forest
3%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)