HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080334850
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
367,5km²
Upstream area
367,8km²
Discharge
17,19m³/s
Mean elev.
161m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Alto AmazonasLoreto · Peru365.9 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 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°
26,3°C
Annual rain
2 254mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,27
Runoff
1 474mm/an
PET
1 649mm
AET
1 631mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
13cm
Forest
97%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)