HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080171930
Bassin de Río Papunaua
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 : El Retorno, Papunahua
Sub-basin area
927,8km²
Upstream area
4 050,6km²
Discharge
210,6m³/s
Mean elev.
187m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Papunaua1169 km²
- Bassin de Río Papunaua3 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 732.0 km²79.3% of basin
- 191.7 km²20.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nukak
IUCN IaNature Reserve
202.67 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
64 distinct species · 69 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°
26,5°C
Annual rain
2 947mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,44
Runoff
1 721mm/an
PET
1 654mm
AET
1 554mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
26cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
41%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)