HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080221140
Bassin de Rio Urubaxi
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 : Barcelos, Santa Isabel do Rio Negro
Sub-basin area
1 075,3km²
Upstream area
6 412,9km²
Discharge
294,84m³/s
Mean elev.
60m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Urubaxi1193 km²
- Bassin · #6080230660984 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 595.5 km²55.6% of basin
- 474.9 km²44.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Rio Negro
IUCN IbWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
1070.48 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
593.96 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°
26,6°C
Annual rain
2 617mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,36
Runoff
1 301mm/an
PET
1 682mm
AET
1 667mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
8cm
Forest
93%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)