Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080292290

Bassin de Rio Caru

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 : Bom Jardim, Governador Newton Bello, São João do Carú

Pfafstetter: 63104605

Sub-basin area

218,5km²

Upstream area

2 377,4km²

Discharge

33,9m³/s

Mean elev.

80m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin · #6080292860144 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Caru

    IUCN Not Reported

    Indigenous Area

    147.27 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

3 distinct species · 3 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

3 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 3
3–2
3–2
3–2
< 3

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

26,9°C

Annual rain

1 736mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,01

Runoff

452mm/an

PET

1 748mm

AET

1 158mm

Mean slope

2,2°

Water table

45cm

Forest

63%

Crops

0%

Urban

1%

Protected

68%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)