HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080419060
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, Riachão, Tasso Fragoso
Sub-basin area
759,9km²
Upstream area
7 727km²
Discharge
87,26m³/s
Mean elev.
394m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio das Balsas612 km²
- Bassin de Rio das Balsas163 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 752.7 km²99.5% of basin
- 2.9 km²0.4% of basin
- 1.0 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 19 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°
25,6°C
Annual rain
1 240mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
339mm/an
PET
1 819mm
AET
1 047mm
Mean slope
5,0°
Water table
233cm
Forest
21%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)