HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080892260
Bassin de Faro
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 2 administrative regions : Faro, Mayo Rey
Sub-basin area
29,2km²
Upstream area
10 347,2km²
Discharge
148,66m³/s
Mean elev.
338m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Faro553 km²
- Bassin de Mayo Lifé523 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 29.1 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Faro
IUCN IINational Park
16.56 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 6 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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
1 394mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,27
Runoff
335mm/an
PET
1 903mm
AET
994mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
109cm
Forest
100%
Crops
51%
Urban
0%
Protected
57%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)