HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080253530
Bassin de Rio Piratucu
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 : Nhamundá, Parintins, Urucará
Sub-basin area
1 685,6km²
Upstream area
3 879,8km²
Discharge
127,78m³/s
Mean elev.
74m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Piratucu246 km²
- Bassin de Rio Piratucu21 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1649.2 km²98.3% of basin
- 29.0 km²1.7% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 26 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°
27,3°C
Annual rain
2 021mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,20
Runoff
1 058mm/an
PET
1 619mm
AET
1 277mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
90cm
Forest
94%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)