HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080203840
Bassin de Rio Praçacá
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 : Macapá, Porto Grande, Santana
Sub-basin area
898,5km²
Upstream area
898,7km²
Discharge
26,84m³/s
Mean elev.
81m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Porto GrandeAmapá · Brazil760.0 km²85.0% of basin
- 117.1 km²13.1% of basin
- 17.4 km²1.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Floresta Estadual Do Amapá
IUCN VIForest
274.65 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 11 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°
26,5°C
Annual rain
2 303mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,32
Runoff
929mm/an
PET
1 560mm
AET
1 312mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
60cm
Forest
96%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
31%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)