HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080163520
Bassin de Rio Branco
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 : Boa Vista, Cantá, Mucajaí
Sub-basin area
4,5km²
Upstream area
100 398,7km²
Discharge
2 250,05m³/s
Mean elev.
70m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Quitauaú2412 km²
- Bassin de Rio Branco284 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 4.1 km²91.7% of basin
- 0.4 km²8.2% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 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
1 621mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,08
Runoff
467mm/an
PET
1 754mm
AET
1 107mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
48cm
Forest
86%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)