HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080447480
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
184,5km²
Upstream area
8 739,8km²
Discharge
471,67m³/s
Mean elev.
99m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Candeias2342 km²
- Bassin · #6080451610880 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 115.1 km²62.7% of basin
- 68.6 km²37.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
2 210mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,23
Runoff
1 622mm/an
PET
1 707mm
AET
1 354mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
36cm
Forest
83%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)