HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080269840
Bassin · #6080269840
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 5 administrative regions : Palmeirândia, Pedro do Rosário, Pinheiro, Presidente Sarney, São Bento
Sub-basin area
429,2km²
Upstream area
1 099,6km²
Discharge
37,05m³/s
Mean elev.
31m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Grande415 km²
- Bassin · #6080273250255 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 233.7 km²54.7% of basin
- 98.6 km²23.1% of basin
- 52.9 km²12.4% of basin
- 26.9 km²6.3% of basin
- 15.2 km²3.5% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
330.43 km² overlap
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
328.93 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°
27,1°C
Annual rain
2 052mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,19
Runoff
1 140mm/an
PET
1 668mm
AET
1 215mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
37cm
Forest
48%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
77%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)