HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080235460
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
483,2km²
Upstream area
483,2km²
Discharge
19,87m³/s
Mean elev.
54m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 intersecting protected areas
Rio Negro
IUCN IbWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
10.51 km² overlap
Extractive Reserve
9.73 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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)
0,31
Runoff
1 297mm/an
PET
1 703mm
AET
1 542mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
5cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)