HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080284640
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
518,1km²
Upstream area
6 777,2km²
Discharge
419,76m³/s
Mean elev.
157m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Pucacuro756 km²
- Bassin de Río Pucacuro367 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 482.5 km²93.5% of basin
- 33.4 km²6.5% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Pucacuro
IUCN VINational Reserve
427.67 km² overlap
Regional Conservation Area
22.79 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 8 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
2 648mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,36
Runoff
1 847mm/an
PET
1 696mm
AET
1 696mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
16cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)