HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080406100
Bassin de Rio Cachoeira
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 : Balsas, Fortaleza dos Nogueiras, São Raimundo das Mangabeiras
Sub-basin area
295,6km²
Upstream area
1 671km²
Discharge
16,65m³/s
Mean elev.
353m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Riacho Mosquito502 km²
- Bassin de Ribeirão Macapá288 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 181.7 km²61.7% of basin
- 112.7 km²38.3% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
21 distinct species · 38 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°
25,7°C
Annual rain
1 216mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
310mm/an
PET
1 825mm
AET
1 027mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
160cm
Forest
18%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)