HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080546500
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 1 administrative regions : Tambopata
Sub-basin area
1 459,1km²
Upstream area
56 556,4km²
Discharge
3 963,45m³/s
Mean elev.
233m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Inambari1649 km²
- Bassin de Rio alto Madre de Dios1177 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Tambopata1453.6 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
970 distinct species · 33 227 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 22 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 : 16 espèces reliées par 26 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 11.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
25,2°C
Annual rain
2 622mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,34
Runoff
1 374mm/an
PET
1 720mm
AET
1 562mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
68cm
Forest
76%
Crops
3%
Urban
1%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)