HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080225470
Bassin de Río Apaporis
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 : La Pedrera, Taraira
Sub-basin area
632,4km²
Upstream area
47 505,9km²
Discharge
2 876,33m³/s
Mean elev.
123m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Quebrada Jotabeyá636 km²
- Bassin de Río Apaporis113 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 425.4 km²67.6% of basin
- 204.2 km²32.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Yaigojé Apaporis
IUCN IINational Natural Park
629.57 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
160 distinct species · 246 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°
25,8°C
Annual rain
3 000mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,47
Runoff
2 375mm/an
PET
1 603mm
AET
1 603mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
14cm
Forest
97%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)