HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080427760
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
612,4km²
Upstream area
6 804km²
Discharge
79,19m³/s
Mean elev.
413m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio das Balsas226 km²
- Bassin de Rio das Balsas163 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 601.1 km²98.6% of basin
- 6.5 km²1.1% of basin
- 2.2 km²0.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 15 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 203mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
341mm/an
PET
1 825mm
AET
1 017mm
Mean slope
5,0°
Water table
231cm
Forest
29%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)