HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080159000
Bassin de Rio Apiaú
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 : Iracema, Mucajaí
Sub-basin area
691,8km²
Upstream area
4 636,5km²
Discharge
88,24m³/s
Mean elev.
132m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Apiaú1589 km²
- Bassin de Rio Apiaú252 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 687.4 km²99.8% of basin
- 1.3 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Floresta Nacional De Roraima
IUCN VIForest
0.21 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
43 distinct species · 89 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
1 821mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
541mm/an
PET
1 769mm
AET
1 239mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
108cm
Forest
66%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)