The urban agglomeration of Lima and Callao is the second largest city in the world located in a desert, and its supply depends on three small rivers, the Rímac River being the one with the greatest water supply, affected by contamination by mining tailings, sewage and Solid waste. In order to know the climatological and hydrographic conditions that favor the concentration of heavy metals in the water, the relationship between rainfall, water discharges and concentration of aluminum, cadmium, iron and lead in the Rímac River hydrographic system in the period 2018-2021. For which data processing was carried out from six meteorological stations, a water quality monitoring point and four limnimetric stations, through dynamic tables. As a result, it was found that the concentration of heavy metals is higher in the lower basin when rainfall and river level increase in localities of the Alto ...