HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080222620
Bassin de Río Taraira
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 across 2 countries : Japurá, Taraira
Sub-basin area
143,3km²
Upstream area
2 712,4km²
Discharge
176,66m³/s
Mean elev.
125m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #60802197301193 km²
- Bassin de Río Taraira407 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 88.6 km²62.1% of basin
- 54.1 km²37.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Alto Rio Negro
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
63.36 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°
25,6°C
Annual rain
3 179mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,50
Runoff
2 044mm/an
PET
1 600mm
AET
1 600mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
51cm
Forest
97%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
44%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)