HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080973820
Bassin de Río Chico del Sur
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 : Güer Aike, Magallanes
Sub-basin area
284km²
Upstream area
2 554,8km²
Discharge
5,26m³/s
Mean elev.
110m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080973890798 km²
- Bassin de Río Chico del Sur507 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 282.1 km²99.0% of basin
- 3.0 km²1.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Laguna Azul
IUCN VIProvincial Reserve
6.14 km² overlap
Pali Aike
IUCN Not ReportedNational Park
3.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
17 distinct species · 30 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°
6,5°C
Annual rain
234mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
49mm/an
PET
698mm
AET
224mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
170cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)