HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080268580
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, Medicilândia, Porto de Moz
Sub-basin area
53,8km²
Upstream area
7 486,8km²
Discharge
233,32m³/s
Mean elev.
103m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Jarauçu4116 km²
- Bassin de Rio Penatecaua139 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 29.1 km²54.3% of basin
- 22.4 km²41.8% of basin
- 2.1 km²3.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Extractive Reserve
1.97 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
1 763mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
959mm/an
PET
1 645mm
AET
1 162mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
144cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)