HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080336410
Bassin de Río Huallaga
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
90,5km²
Upstream area
90 071,7km²
Discharge
3 955,38m³/s
Mean elev.
122m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Aypena3776 km²
- Bassin de Río Huallaga1150 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Alto AmazonasLoreto · Peru89.5 km²99.3% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Pacaya - Samiria
IUCN VINational Reserve
8.35 km² overlap
Pacaya Samiria
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
8.35 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 11 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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
1 951mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,11
Runoff
1 457mm/an
PET
1 727mm
AET
1 568mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
22cm
Forest
93%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)