HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080358660
Bassin de Rio Tapauá
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 4 administrative regions : Carauari, Itamarati, Tapauá, Tefé
Sub-basin area
3 309,1km²
Upstream area
3 309,2km²
Discharge
139,69m³/s
Mean elev.
121m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 3241.6 km²98.4% of basin
- 47.4 km²1.4% of basin
- 3.5 km²0.1% of basin
- 2.3 km²0.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 12 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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
2 496mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,33
Runoff
1 329mm/an
PET
1 673mm
AET
1 507mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
14cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)