HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080506780
Bassin · #6080506780
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
834,7km²
Upstream area
834,9km²
Discharge
20,29m³/s
Mean elev.
445m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Tahuamanu774.8 km²93.2% of basin
- 56.6 km²6.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Alto Purus
IUCN IINational Park
831.38 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
24,7°C
Annual rain
2 042mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,14
Runoff
798mm/an
PET
1 754mm
AET
1 442mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
56cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)