HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080415640
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 1 administrative regions : Balsas
Sub-basin area
226,2km²
Upstream area
8 238,6km²
Discharge
91,49m³/s
Mean elev.
378m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio das Balsas760 km²
- Bassin de Rio das Balsas285 km²
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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 244mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
335mm/an
PET
1 820mm
AET
1 050mm
Mean slope
5,8°
Water table
310cm
Forest
32%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)