HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080448860
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
150,6km²
Upstream area
130 821,8km²
Discharge
3 615,39m³/s
Mean elev.
191m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Ximari2606 km²
- Bassin de Rio Cururu-Açu293 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 111.6 km²74.4% of basin
- 38.4 km²25.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 7 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 323mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,20
Runoff
1 052mm/an
PET
1 870mm
AET
1 388mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
96cm
Forest
92%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)