HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080549180
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
113,1km²
Upstream area
75 658,6km²
Discharge
4 655,66m³/s
Mean elev.
201m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Madre de Dios1459 km²
- Bassin de Las Piedras97 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Tambopata112.6 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
691 distinct species · 23 134 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 21 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 : 15 espèces reliées par 21 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 9.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
25,4°C
Annual rain
2 188mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,20
Runoff
960mm/an
PET
1 752mm
AET
1 470mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
80cm
Forest
58%
Crops
7%
Urban
8%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)