HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080007000
Bassin · #6080007000
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 3 administrative regions : Afuá, Breves, Gurupá
Sub-basin area
249,2km²
Upstream area
5 912 760,5km²
Discharge
205 605,02m³/s
Mean elev.
15m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080222210547 km²
- Bassin · #608022243019 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 232.4 km²93.7% of basin
- 15.3 km²6.2% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
176.76 km² overlap
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
24.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
31 distinct species · 39 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°
26,9°C
Annual rain
2 639mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,38
Runoff
1 221mm/an
PET
1 637mm
AET
1 470mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
21cm
Forest
78%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
71%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)