HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080808180
Bassin de Río Pilón
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 : Hidalgo, San Carlos, Villagrán
Sub-basin area
14,1km²
Upstream area
984,5km²
Discharge
2,76m³/s
Mean elev.
247m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Pilón643 km²
- Bassin de Río Pilón327 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 8.9 km²63.2% of basin
- Villagrán4.4 km²31.5% of basin
- Hidalgo0.7 km²5.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
23,2°C
Annual rain
590mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
68mm/an
PET
1 753mm
AET
498mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
16cm
Forest
0%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)