HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080007240
Bassin · #6080007240
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 : Chaves
Sub-basin area
240,4km²
Upstream area
6 395,1km²
Discharge
346,03m³/s
Mean elev.
5m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080213930585 km²
- Bassin · #608021407098 km²
2 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
237.54 km² overlap
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
27.55 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 5 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°
27,2°C
Annual rain
3 148mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,52
Runoff
1 521mm/an
PET
1 518mm
AET
1 269mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
12cm
Forest
34%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)