HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080176930
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 4 administrative regions : Carurú, El Retorno, Miraflores, Papunahua
Sub-basin area
451,8km²
Upstream area
452,1km²
Discharge
23,46m³/s
Mean elev.
274m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 209.2 km²46.5% of basin
- 124.6 km²27.7% of basin
- 115.4 km²25.6% of basin
- 0.7 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nukak
IUCN IaNature Reserve
398.26 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°
26,3°C
Annual rain
2 854mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,43
Runoff
1 663mm/an
PET
1 637mm
AET
1 516mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
97cm
Forest
95%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
89%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)