HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080280960
Bassin de Rio Ampiyacu
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
217,8km²
Upstream area
750,5km²
Discharge
47,18m³/s
Mean elev.
124m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Ampiyacu309 km²
- Bassin de Rio Ampiyacu224 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Mariscal Ramón CastillaLoreto · Peru206.1 km²95.0% of basin
- 10.7 km²5.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ampiyacu Apayacu
IUCN VIRegional Conservation Area
204.20 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
26,0°C
Annual rain
2 933mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,43
Runoff
2 079mm/an
PET
1 667mm
AET
1 667mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
12cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)