HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080006620
Bassin · #6080006620
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 4 administrative regions : Cutias, Ferreira Gomes, Itaubal, Macapá
Sub-basin area
1 195,7km²
Upstream area
1 196km²
Discharge
39,54m³/s
Mean elev.
19m
Administrative coverage
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 639.3 km²53.7% of basin
- 410.3 km²34.5% of basin
- Ferreira GomesAmapá · Brazil132.6 km²11.1% of basin
- 8.1 km²0.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
0.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 18 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°
26,8°C
Annual rain
2 213mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,31
Runoff
945mm/an
PET
1 525mm
AET
1 184mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
15cm
Forest
62%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)