HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080206300
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
1 212,7km²
Upstream area
44 092,6km²
Discharge
2 757,25m³/s
Mean elev.
115m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Igarapé Timbó618 km²
- Bassin de Igarapé Timbó3 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1207.2 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Alto Rio Negro
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
1207.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
445 distinct species · 926 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°
25,7°C
Annual rain
3 544mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,54
Runoff
2 294mm/an
PET
1 645mm
AET
1 645mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
32cm
Forest
96%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)