HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080329160
Bassin de Río Cahuapanas
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 : Alto Amazonas
Sub-basin area
144,9km²
Upstream area
4 206,8km²
Discharge
182,47m³/s
Mean elev.
143m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Quebrada Sillay1301 km²
- Bassin de Río Cahuapanas412 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Alto AmazonasLoreto · Peru144.3 km²100.0% of basin
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°
26,5°C
Annual rain
2 274mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,27
Runoff
1 603mm/an
PET
1 666mm
AET
1 640mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
10cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)