HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080053700
Bassin de Río Sico / Tinto / Negro
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 3 administrative regions : Brus Laguna, Iriona, Juan Francisco Bulnes
Sub-basin area
293,9km²
Upstream area
6 518,4km²
Discharge
177,75m³/s
Mean elev.
110m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Sico / Tinto / Negro1628 km²
- Bassin de Río Paulaya1481 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 179.8 km²61.4% of basin
- 106.7 km²36.4% of basin
- 6.2 km²2.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Río Plátano
IUCN VIBiosphere Reserve
200.33 km² overlap
Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
197.18 km² overlap
Río Plátano
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
197.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
11 distinct species · 16 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°
26,6°C
Annual rain
2 837mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,47
Runoff
1 368mm/an
PET
1 490mm
AET
1 411mm
Mean slope
5,9°
Water table
154cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
76%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)