HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080959550
Bassin de Río Simpson
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 : Aysén, Coyhaique
Sub-basin area
754,1km²
Upstream area
4 078km²
Discharge
105,19m³/s
Mean elev.
781m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Coyhaique631 km²
- Bassin de Río Claro137 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 567.9 km²75.1% of basin
- Coyhaique188.1 km²24.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Río Simpson
IUCN Not ReportedNational Reserve
333.34 km² overlap
Coyhaique
IUCN Not ReportedNational Reserve
9.25 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
352 distinct species · 3 471 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río Simpson : 34 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 64 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 6.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
5,5°C
Annual rain
1 344mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,48
Runoff
1 403mm/an
PET
673mm
AET
593mm
Mean slope
21,2°
Water table
788cm
Forest
83%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
45%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)