HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080401930
Bassin de Río Ucayali
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 : Requena, Ucayali
Sub-basin area
2 012,5km²
Upstream area
294 194,1km²
Discharge
10 866,94m³/s
Mean elev.
179m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Ucayali892 km²
- Bassin de Río Ucayali183 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1998.9 km²99.7% of basin
- RequenaLoreto · Peru5.1 km²0.3% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Sierra del Divisor
IUCN Not AssignedRestricted Zone
99.28 km² overlap
Sierra del Divisor
IUCN IINational Park
30.69 km² overlap
El Cortijo
IUCN VIPrivate Conservation Area
0.22 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
525 distinct species · 10 260 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 21 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río Ucayali : 11 espèces reliées par 26 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,6°C
Annual rain
1 790mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
1 183mm/an
PET
1 866mm
AET
1 500mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
53cm
Forest
94%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
44%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)