HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080355690
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
388,6km²
Upstream area
317 298,6km²
Discharge
7 668,77m³/s
Mean elev.
54m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Purus2739 km²
- Bassin de Rio Purus5 km²
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
30 distinct species · 615 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 477mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,33
Runoff
890mm/an
PET
1 670mm
AET
1 502mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
18cm
Forest
94%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)