HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080172390
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 3 administrative regions : El Retorno, Miraflores, Papunahua
Sub-basin area
1 169km²
Upstream area
1 169km²
Discharge
58,91m³/s
Mean elev.
245m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1159.6 km²99.6% of basin
- 4.0 km²0.3% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nukak
IUCN IaNature Reserve
1163.68 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
21 distinct species · 23 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
2 860mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,42
Runoff
1 626mm/an
PET
1 645mm
AET
1 517mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
85cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)