HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080292860
Bassin · #6080292860
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 : Bom Jardim, São João do Carú
Sub-basin area
143,9km²
Upstream area
2 669,6km²
Discharge
38,36m³/s
Mean elev.
71m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Caru219 km²
- Bassin · #6080292150149 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 105.1 km²73.4% of basin
- 38.2 km²26.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Caru
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
104.37 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 4 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°
27,0°C
Annual rain
1 750mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,00
Runoff
458mm/an
PET
1 749mm
AET
1 159mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
42cm
Forest
77%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
73%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)