HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080963990
Bassin de Cañadón Caracoles
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 : Lago Buenos Aires, Rió Chico
Sub-basin area
1 568,4km²
Upstream area
1 568,6km²
Discharge
7,28m³/s
Mean elev.
669m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 797.1 km²50.7% of basin
- 775.6 km²49.3% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Patagonia
IUCN IbWilderness Nature Reserve
106.35 km² overlap
Patagonia
IUCN IINational Park
69.59 km² overlap
Cueva de las Manos
IUCN IIINature Historical and Cultural Heritage Site
22.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
283 distinct species · 13 567 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Cañadón Caracoles : 27 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 46 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
7,7°C
Annual rain
167mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,79
Runoff
157mm/an
PET
809mm
AET
164mm
Mean slope
3,4°
Water table
465cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)