HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080968250
Bassin de Río Grande
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 across 2 countries : Capitán Prat, Lago Argentino
Sub-basin area
299km²
Upstream area
299,1km²
Discharge
2,93m³/s
Mean elev.
1 143m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 296.5 km²98.8% of basin
- 3.5 km²1.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lago del Desierto
IUCN VIProvincial Reserve
89.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
11 distinct species · 11 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°
3,6°C
Annual rain
728mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,15
Runoff
311mm/an
PET
615mm
AET
491mm
Mean slope
21,1°
Water table
634cm
Forest
19%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)