HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080447060
Bassin de Rio Candeias
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 : Candeias do Jamari, Porto Velho
Sub-basin area
17,3km²
Upstream area
10 399,7km²
Discharge
556,64m³/s
Mean elev.
90m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Candeias1643 km²
- Bassin de Rio Candeias185 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 9.5 km²55.2% of basin
- 7.7 km²44.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
36 distinct species · 48 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 195mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,22
Runoff
1 587mm/an
PET
1 705mm
AET
1 351mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
66cm
Forest
70%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)