HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080388660
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 3 administrative regions : Itamarati, Lábrea, Tapauá
Sub-basin area
1 234,1km²
Upstream area
6 892km²
Discharge
160,45m³/s
Mean elev.
131m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Cuniuá3476 km²
- Bassin de Rio Aruá2181 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 854.4 km²69.5% of basin
- 369.5 km²30.1% of basin
- 4.9 km²0.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 8 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°
25,8°C
Annual rain
2 501mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,31
Runoff
698mm/an
PET
1 724mm
AET
1 520mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
22cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)