HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080971010
Bassin de Río Santa Cruz
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 : Corpen Aike, Lago Argentino
Sub-basin area
892,2km²
Upstream area
21 739,2km²
Discharge
705,91m³/s
Mean elev.
309m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Santa Cruz3243 km²
- Bassin de Río Santa Cruz846 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 813.4 km²90.9% of basin
- 81.9 km²9.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
44 distinct species · 57 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 11 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 Santa Cruz : 11 espèces reliées par 7 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 12.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
7,3°C
Annual rain
141mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,82
Runoff
36mm/an
PET
795mm
AET
144mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
309cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)