HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080440250
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 : Alto Parnaíba, Balsas, Tasso Fragoso
Sub-basin area
427km²
Upstream area
427,1km²
Discharge
4,75m³/s
Mean elev.
491m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 399.3 km²93.9% of basin
- 25.9 km²6.1% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
30 distinct species · 56 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 214mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
351mm/an
PET
1 825mm
AET
1 025mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
117cm
Forest
21%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)