HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080414230
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 2 administrative regions : Lábrea, Pauini
Sub-basin area
875,7km²
Upstream area
165 716,8km²
Discharge
3 841,01m³/s
Mean elev.
105m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Mamoriá5235 km²
- Bassin de Rio Purus978 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 867.4 km²99.5% of basin
- 4.6 km²0.5% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Extractive Reserve
802.80 km² overlap
Apurinã do Igarapé Mucuim
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
58.63 km² overlap
Hi Merimã
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
8.30 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 25 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°
26,1°C
Annual rain
2 372mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,27
Runoff
883mm/an
PET
1 730mm
AET
1 472mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
18cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)