HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080237580
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
1 630,2km²
Upstream area
1 630,2km²
Discharge
74,6m³/s
Mean elev.
63m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 intersecting protected areas
Extractive Reserve
329.95 km² overlap
Rio Negro
IUCN IbWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
329.15 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°
26,6°C
Annual rain
2 670mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,37
Runoff
1 486mm/an
PET
1 687mm
AET
1 654mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
4cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
20%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)