HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080256940
Bassin de Rio Jarauçu
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 : Brasil Novo, Porto de Moz, Prainha
Sub-basin area
2 031,5km²
Upstream area
12 865km²
Discharge
390,47m³/s
Mean elev.
106m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Furo do Jurupari1793 km²
- Bassin de Rio Jarauçu54 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1919.6 km²94.9% of basin
- 77.8 km²3.8% of basin
- 25.1 km²1.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Extractive Reserve
1930.47 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
1 873mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,12
Runoff
957mm/an
PET
1 648mm
AET
1 205mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
101cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
95%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)