HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080201300
Bassin de Rio Aracá
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 : Barcelos
Sub-basin area
994,9km²
Upstream area
5 828,1km²
Discharge
151,23m³/s
Mean elev.
72m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Cueiras1166 km²
- Bassin de Rio Aracá1124 km²
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
356 distinct species · 952 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 254mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,22
Runoff
802mm/an
PET
1 745mm
AET
1 543mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
35cm
Forest
64%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)