HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080454400
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
282,1km²
Upstream area
63 645,3km²
Discharge
1 403,24m³/s
Mean elev.
165m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Purus1213 km²
- Bassin de Rio Caeté49 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 270.1 km²96.2% of basin
- 10.8 km²3.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Igarapé Capana
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
0.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 7 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°
24,9°C
Annual rain
1 955mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
557mm/an
PET
1 832mm
AET
1 453mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
55cm
Forest
91%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)