HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080387020
Bassin de Rio Cuniuá
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 : Itamarati, Tapauá
Sub-basin area
758,5km²
Upstream area
10 692,8km²
Discharge
220,8m³/s
Mean elev.
110m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Cuniuá1457 km²
- Bassin de Rio Cuniuá670 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 448.3 km²59.4% of basin
- 307.0 km²40.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
150 distinct species · 621 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°
26,0°C
Annual rain
2 501mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,32
Runoff
656mm/an
PET
1 709mm
AET
1 507mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
17cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)