HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080408420
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 : Balsas, Sambaíba
Sub-basin area
7,8km²
Upstream area
16 245,3km²
Discharge
174,63m³/s
Mean elev.
249m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Balsainhas1986 km²
- Bassin de Rio das Balsas278 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 5.4 km²69.7% of basin
- 2.4 km²30.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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 188mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
313mm/an
PET
1 851mm
AET
1 004mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
115cm
Forest
0%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)