HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080358500
Bassin de Rio Tapajós
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 1 administrative regions : Jacareacanga
Sub-basin area
177,5km²
Upstream area
366 836km²
Discharge
14 064,17m³/s
Mean elev.
121m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Tapajós396 km²
- Bassin de Rio Tapajós334 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 176.7 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
12.49 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
26 distinct species · 33 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 149mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,19
Runoff
1 150mm/an
PET
1 735mm
AET
1 381mm
Mean slope
4,2°
Water table
142cm
Forest
87%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)