HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080488370
Bassin de Rio Chandless
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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Manoel Urbano, Purús, Tahuamanu
Sub-basin area
1 724,9km²
Upstream area
1 725km²
Discharge
32,04m³/s
Mean elev.
321m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Tahuamanu1491.6 km²86.8% of basin
- 126.2 km²7.3% of basin
- 100.1 km²5.8% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Alto Purus
IUCN IINational Park
1610.07 km² overlap
Parque Estadual Chandless
IUCN IIPark
117.48 km² overlap
Purus
IUCN VICommunal Reserve
2.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
1 900mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
620mm/an
PET
1 759mm
AET
1 384mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
58cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)