HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080479810
Bassin de Río Purús
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 : Purús, Tahuamanu
Sub-basin area
1 570,7km²
Upstream area
9 562,9km²
Discharge
285,24m³/s
Mean elev.
306m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cocama644 km²
- Bassin de Río Purús489 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1557.4 km²99.6% of basin
- Tahuamanu7.0 km²0.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Purus
IUCN VICommunal Reserve
619.33 km² overlap
Alto Purus
IUCN IINational Park
28.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
350 distinct species · 669 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 11 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 Purús : 10 espèces reliées par 8 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 14.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (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°
25,2°C
Annual rain
1 876mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
742mm/an
PET
1 762mm
AET
1 378mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
55cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
94%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)