HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080408300
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 : Balsas, Fortaleza dos Nogueiras, São Raimundo das Mangabeiras
Sub-basin area
269,9km²
Upstream area
269,9km²
Discharge
2,61m³/s
Mean elev.
329m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 179.8 km²66.9% of basin
- 89.0 km²33.1% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
12 distinct species · 27 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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
1 204mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
308mm/an
PET
1 832mm
AET
1 017mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
88cm
Forest
7%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)