HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080272870
Bassin de Rio Yaguas
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 : Mariscal Ramón Castilla, Maynas
Sub-basin area
578,2km²
Upstream area
578,2km²
Discharge
37,67m³/s
Mean elev.
132m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 421.0 km²73.1% of basin
- Mariscal Ramón CastillaLoreto · Peru154.7 km²26.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Yaguas
IUCN IINational Park
544.80 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 14 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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
2 908mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,44
Runoff
2 060mm/an
PET
1 643mm
AET
1 642mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
12cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
95%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)