HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080206660
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
731km²
Upstream area
63 445,8km²
Discharge
4 180,78m³/s
Mean elev.
95m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Igarapé Tucano562 km²
- Bassin de Rio Uaupés196 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 727.8 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Alto Rio Negro
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
727.78 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
24 distinct species · 40 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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
3 176mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,48
Runoff
1 901mm/an
PET
1 647mm
AET
1 647mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
12cm
Forest
93%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)