HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080353450
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
429,3km²
Upstream area
319 796,8km²
Discharge
7 465,48m³/s
Mean elev.
51m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Purus406 km²
- Bassin de Rio Purus334 km²
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 16 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°
26,5°C
Annual rain
2 386mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,30
Runoff
781mm/an
PET
1 663mm
AET
1 490mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
15cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)