HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080471020
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 : Atalaya, Coronel Portillo
Sub-basin area
268,4km²
Upstream area
205 550km²
Discharge
6 612,83m³/s
Mean elev.
191m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Ucayali1459 km²
- Bassin de Río Aruya394 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 139.9 km²52.3% of basin
- 127.4 km²47.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 20 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
1 793mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,00
Runoff
1 556mm/an
PET
1 802mm
AET
1 483mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
50cm
Forest
94%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
90%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)