HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080500940
Bassin de Río Cujar
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 : Atalaya, Purús, Tahuamanu
Sub-basin area
1 872,2km²
Upstream area
1 872,5km²
Discharge
65,37m³/s
Mean elev.
427m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1736.9 km²93.1% of basin
- Tahuamanu112.5 km²6.0% of basin
- 15.4 km²0.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Alto Purus
IUCN IINational Park
1849.59 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 5 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 953mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
1 134mm/an
PET
1 783mm
AET
1 464mm
Mean slope
4,3°
Water table
85cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)