Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080349860

Bassin de Río Pacaya

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 : Requena

15% lakePfafstetter: 62299328

Sub-basin area

889,7km²

Upstream area

889,7km²

Discharge

46,17m³/s

Mean elev.

116m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Río Pacaya718 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

  • Requena
    Loreto · Peru
    885.8 km²
    100.0% of basin

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Pacaya - Samiria

    IUCN VI

    National Reserve

    885.84 km² overlap

  • Pacaya Samiria

    IUCN Not Reported

    Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)

    885.84 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

12 distinct species · 15 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

15 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 14
14–13
14–13
14–13
< 14

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

27,0°C

Annual rain

2 274mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,21

Runoff

1 633mm/an

PET

1 792mm

AET

1 668mm

Mean slope

0,2°

Water table

4cm

Forest

96%

Crops

1%

Urban

0%

Protected

100%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)