HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080233210
Bassin de Rio Caurés
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
1 479,2km²
Upstream area
4 651,9km²
Discharge
190,9m³/s
Mean elev.
54m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Caurés526 km²
- Bassin de Rio Caurés214 km²
2 intersecting protected areas
Extractive Reserve
96.67 km² overlap
Rio Negro
IUCN IbWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
96.19 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 23 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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
2 453mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,30
Runoff
1 237mm/an
PET
1 705mm
AET
1 555mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
7cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)