HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080453450
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 : Boca do Acre, Sena Madureira
Sub-basin area
1 213,2km²
Upstream area
36 788,8km²
Discharge
961,11m³/s
Mean elev.
176m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Purus390 km²
- Bassin de Igarapé Bela Aurora243 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1140.1 km²94.4% of basin
- 68.1 km²5.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 11 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°
24,8°C
Annual rain
2 118mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,13
Runoff
559mm/an
PET
1 829mm
AET
1 489mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
48cm
Forest
95%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)