HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080331960
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 : Alto Amazonas
Sub-basin area
79,2km²
Upstream area
188 929,4km²
Discharge
7 550,28m³/s
Mean elev.
132m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Hungurahui1871 km²
- Bassin de Río Marañón539 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Alto AmazonasLoreto · Peru78.9 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°
26,6°C
Annual rain
2 169mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,23
Runoff
1 562mm/an
PET
1 680mm
AET
1 631mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
18cm
Forest
89%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)