HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080006720
Bassin de Rio Vila Nova
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 : Mazagão, Santana
Sub-basin area
280,4km²
Upstream area
5 383,8km²
Discharge
181,21m³/s
Mean elev.
15m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Vila Nova279 km²
- Bassin de Rio Vila Nova34 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 250.5 km²89.8% of basin
- 28.6 km²10.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
5.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 11 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°
27,0°C
Annual rain
2 362mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,34
Runoff
1 080mm/an
PET
1 561mm
AET
1 278mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
32cm
Forest
64%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)