HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080963280
Bassin de Río San Martín
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 : Capitán Prat, General Carrera
Sub-basin area
547,3km²
Upstream area
13 784,9km²
Discharge
129,3m³/s
Mean elev.
704m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Los Maitenes386 km²
- Bassin de Río Hernández257 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 547.0 km²99.7% of basin
- 1.7 km²0.3% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Laguna San Rafael (RB)
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
548.31 km² overlap
Patagonia
IUCN Not ReportedNational Park
93.96 km² overlap
Laguna San Rafael
IUCN Not ReportedNational Park
4.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
197 distinct species · 3 454 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 San Martín : 33 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 50 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 6.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
5,7°C
Annual rain
911mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,28
Runoff
439mm/an
PET
654mm
AET
529mm
Mean slope
10,6°
Water table
340cm
Forest
51%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)