HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080515020
Bassin de Río Madre de Dios
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 : Madre de Dios, Manuripi
Sub-basin area
67,3km²
Upstream area
121 509,5km²
Discharge
6 190,45m³/s
Mean elev.
146m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 35.2 km²52.6% of basin
- 31.8 km²47.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
23 distinct species · 32 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
1 663mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
605mm/an
PET
1 774mm
AET
1 306mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
52cm
Forest
51%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)