HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080282910
Bassin de Rio Alto Pracajá
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 2 administrative regions : Pacajá, Portel
Sub-basin area
644,5km²
Upstream area
12 624,7km²
Discharge
399,4m³/s
Mean elev.
96m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Pacajá1066 km²
- Bassin de Rio Alto Pracajá701 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 410.6 km²64.0% of basin
- 231.0 km²36.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
29 distinct species · 169 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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
2 259mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,23
Runoff
1 257mm/an
PET
1 744mm
AET
1 279mm
Mean slope
4,9°
Water table
102cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)