HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080436550
Bassin de Rio Teles Pires
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 : Apiacás, Jacareacanga
Sub-basin area
397,6km²
Upstream area
134 168,6km²
Discharge
3 623,83m³/s
Mean elev.
160m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Teles Pires465 km²
- Bassin de Rio Teles Pires165 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 268.7 km²67.9% of basin
- 127.2 km²32.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
29 distinct species · 33 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°
26,0°C
Annual rain
2 345mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,21
Runoff
1 121mm/an
PET
1 851mm
AET
1 394mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
107cm
Forest
74%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)