HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080556250
Bassin de Río Madidi
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 : Abel Iturralde
Sub-basin area
224,7km²
Upstream area
8 304,4km²
Discharge
178,86m³/s
Mean elev.
179m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Madidi2383 km²
- Bassin de Río Enatahua1326 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 223.9 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
El Dorado
IUCN IVWildlife Refuge
27.32 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
73 distinct species · 181 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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
1 772mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,01
Runoff
730mm/an
PET
1 752mm
AET
1 341mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
7cm
Forest
38%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
12%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)