HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080502520
Bassin de Río Sepa
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, La Convención, Satipo
Sub-basin area
1 063,6km²
Upstream area
1 063,6km²
Discharge
42,47m³/s
Mean elev.
384m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1043.2 km²98.5% of basin
- SatipoJunín · Peru14.0 km²1.3% of basin
- La ConvenciónCusco · Peru2.1 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Machiguenga
IUCN VICommunal Reserve
0.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
19 distinct species · 25 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°
25,6°C
Annual rain
1 681mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,07
Runoff
1 245mm/an
PET
1 808mm
AET
1 412mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
98cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
16%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)