HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080539910
Bassin de Río Apurimac
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 : Huanta, La Convención, Satipo
Sub-basin area
276,1km²
Upstream area
64 900,9km²
Discharge
1 312,54m³/s
Mean elev.
922m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Apurimac850 km²
- Bassin de Río Chuimacota509 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- La ConvenciónCusco · Peru201.5 km²73.2% of basin
- 67.8 km²24.6% of basin
- SatipoJunín · Peru5.9 km²2.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
36 distinct species · 43 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°
23,2°C
Annual rain
1 503mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,18
Runoff
1 348mm/an
PET
1 825mm
AET
1 233mm
Mean slope
13,0°
Water table
381cm
Forest
91%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
37%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)