HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080295700
Bassin de Río Colpayacu
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 : Alto Amazonas, Loreto
Sub-basin area
1 643,7km²
Upstream area
1 644,3km²
Discharge
71,76m³/s
Mean elev.
187m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1605.8 km²98.1% of basin
- Alto AmazonasLoreto · Peru30.7 km²1.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
12 distinct species · 13 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 176mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,22
Runoff
1 499mm/an
PET
1 694mm
AET
1 655mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
5cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)