HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080261830
Bassin de Río Pucacuro
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 : Loreto, Maynas
Sub-basin area
507,5km²
Upstream area
2 132,3km²
Discharge
140,5m³/s
Mean elev.
195m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Pucacuro1280 km²
- Bassin de Río Pucacuro345 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 469.6 km²92.9% of basin
- 35.6 km²7.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Pucacuro
IUCN VINational Reserve
467.80 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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
2 775mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,40
Runoff
2 044mm/an
PET
1 675mm
AET
1 675mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
31cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)