HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080347020
Bassin de Rio Purus
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 : Tapauá
Sub-basin area
816,7km²
Upstream area
816,8km²
Discharge
16,72m³/s
Mean elev.
66m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 intersecting protected areas
Apurinã Igarapé Tauamirim
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
662.53 km² overlap
Park
79.53 km² overlap
Reserva Biológica Do Abufari
IUCN IaBiological Reserve
18.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
12 distinct species · 26 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 484mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,33
Runoff
645mm/an
PET
1 655mm
AET
1 444mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
11cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
93%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)