HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080367400
Bassin de Rio Alpercatas
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 : Fernando Falcão, Mirador, Tuntum
Sub-basin area
940,6km²
Upstream area
5 143,9km²
Discharge
40,6m³/s
Mean elev.
306m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Alpercatas454 km²
- Bassin de Rio Alpercatas319 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 555.6 km²59.3% of basin
- 359.1 km²38.3% of basin
- 21.9 km²2.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kanela
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
246.22 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 5 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°
26,0°C
Annual rain
1 378mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
199mm/an
PET
1 797mm
AET
1 074mm
Mean slope
3,4°
Water table
198cm
Forest
15%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
26%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)