HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080327620
Bassin de Río Marañón
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 1 administrative regions : Loreto
Sub-basin area
63,5km²
Upstream area
292 700,4km²
Discharge
12 259,83m³/s
Mean elev.
119m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Marañón153 km²
- Bassin de Río Marañón8 km²
2 intersecting protected areas
Pacaya - Samiria
IUCN VINational Reserve
23.90 km² overlap
Pacaya Samiria
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
23.90 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
26,6°C
Annual rain
2 093mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,17
Runoff
1 496mm/an
PET
1 731mm
AET
1 623mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
20cm
Forest
83%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)