HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080204840
Bassin de Rio Uaupés
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 1 administrative regions : São Gabriel da Cachoeira
Sub-basin area
86,3km²
Upstream area
61 658,5km²
Discharge
4 066,78m³/s
Mean elev.
94m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Uaupés2573 km²
- Bassin de Rio Uaupés2202 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 85.9 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Alto Rio Negro
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
85.88 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 7 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°
26,1°C
Annual rain
3 423mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,51
Runoff
2 117mm/an
PET
1 661mm
AET
1 661mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
14cm
Forest
90%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)