HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080436320
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, Tasso Fragoso
Sub-basin area
486,4km²
Upstream area
4 485,4km²
Discharge
54,51m³/s
Mean elev.
481m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio das Balsas427 km²
- Bassin de Rio das Balsas23 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 475.5 km²98.2% of basin
- 8.9 km²1.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 5 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°
25,2°C
Annual rain
1 182mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
347mm/an
PET
1 822mm
AET
999mm
Mean slope
3,2°
Water table
153cm
Forest
44%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)