HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080500440
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 1 administrative regions : Purús
Sub-basin area
111,6km²
Upstream area
3 618,4km²
Discharge
122,42m³/s
Mean elev.
376m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cujar1872 km²
- Bassin de Río Curiuja1634 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Alto Purus
IUCN IINational Park
111.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
25,3°C
Annual rain
1 945mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
1 002mm/an
PET
1 774mm
AET
1 441mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
69cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)