HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080544220
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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Abel Iturralde, Manuripi, Tambopata
Sub-basin area
632,4km²
Upstream area
99 189,9km²
Discharge
5 692,11m³/s
Mean elev.
211m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Heath3875 km²
- Bassin de Río Madre de Dios932 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 521.9 km²82.9% of basin
- 106.5 km²16.9% of basin
- Tambopata1.5 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Manuripi
IUCN Not ReportedNational Wildlife Reserve
516.26 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
205 distinct species · 357 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río Madre de Dios : 30 espèces reliées par 34 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 4.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,5°C
Annual rain
1 928mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,10
Runoff
851mm/an
PET
1 741mm
AET
1 389mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
47cm
Forest
97%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
82%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)