HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080321880
Bassin de Chinchaga River
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 1 administrative regions : Division No. 17
Sub-basin area
551,7km²
Upstream area
4 474,9km²
Discharge
13,96m³/s
Mean elev.
722m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #8080323180885 km²
- Bassin de Chinchaga River297 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 554.5 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 9 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°
-1,1°C
Annual rain
440mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,28
Runoff
59mm/an
PET
608mm
AET
378mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
14cm
Forest
65%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)