HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080405990
Bassin de Rio Paraíba
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 5 administrative regions : Ingá, Itatuba, Macaparana, Mogeiro, Salgado de São Félix
Sub-basin area
70,8km²
Upstream area
16 862km²
Discharge
12,59m³/s
Mean elev.
212m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Riacho Surrão515 km²
- Bassin de Rio Paraíba101 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 58.4 km²82.8% of basin
- 10.2 km²14.5% of basin
- 1.0 km²1.4% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.9% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 6 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°
24,6°C
Annual rain
870mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,46
Runoff
241mm/an
PET
1 616mm
AET
736mm
Mean slope
4,9°
Water table
274cm
Forest
2%
Crops
30%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)