HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080007430
Bassin de Rio Atuá
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 : Muaná, Ponta de Pedras
Sub-basin area
56km²
Upstream area
2 769km²
Discharge
119,78m³/s
Mean elev.
14m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Atuá1062 km²
- Bassin de Rio Atuá32 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 55.7 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
55.74 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°
27,0°C
Annual rain
2 665mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,37
Runoff
1 222mm/an
PET
1 681mm
AET
1 412mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
29cm
Forest
95%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)