HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080399250
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 3 administrative regions : Loreto, Sambaíba, São Raimundo das Mangabeiras
Sub-basin area
315,3km²
Upstream area
19 470,1km²
Discharge
198,32m³/s
Mean elev.
254m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio das Balsas217 km²
- Bassin de Rio das Balsas20 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 163.8 km²52.2% of basin
- 78.2 km²24.9% of basin
- 71.9 km²22.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
53 distinct species · 124 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
1 075mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
262mm/an
PET
1 848mm
AET
908mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
174cm
Forest
14%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)