HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080354170
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 2 administrative regions : Coari, Tapauá
Sub-basin area
613,8km²
Upstream area
318 102,1km²
Discharge
7 508,12m³/s
Mean elev.
57m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Purus389 km²
- Bassin de Rio Purus188 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 601.5 km²98.4% of basin
- 9.7 km²1.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
61 distinct species · 87 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 446mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,32
Runoff
960mm/an
PET
1 663mm
AET
1 499mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
11cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)