HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080477660
Bassin de Rio Paraim
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 : Curimatá, Parnaguá, Riacho Frio
Sub-basin area
906km²
Upstream area
8 748km²
Discharge
27,64m³/s
Mean elev.
403m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Fundo1134 km²
- Bassin de Rio Fundo11 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 494.4 km²54.8% of basin
- 407.8 km²45.2% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
24 distinct species · 40 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°
25,3°C
Annual rain
949mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,52
Runoff
122mm/an
PET
1 965mm
AET
802mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
275cm
Forest
69%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)