HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080172710
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
766,2km²
Upstream area
1 494km²
Discharge
76,59m³/s
Mean elev.
228m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Papunaua452 km²
- Bassin de Río Papunaua276 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 480.8 km²63.0% of basin
- 282.0 km²37.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nukak
IUCN IaNature Reserve
282.13 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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 901mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,43
Runoff
1 661mm/an
PET
1 644mm
AET
1 539mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
69cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
47%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)