HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080395550
Bassin de Rio das Balsas
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 : Loreto, São Félix de Balsas
Sub-basin area
271,1km²
Upstream area
271,1km²
Discharge
1,56m³/s
Mean elev.
314m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 246.1 km²91.1% of basin
- 23.9 km²8.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
20 distinct species · 63 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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
1 145mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
185mm/an
PET
1 819mm
AET
967mm
Mean slope
4,2°
Water table
268cm
Forest
25%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)