HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080482840
Bassin de Rio do Sono
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 : Lizarda, Novo Acordo, Rio Sono
Sub-basin area
337,3km²
Upstream area
14 230,8km²
Discharge
285,72m³/s
Mean elev.
292m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Espingarda1449 km²
- Bassin de Rio do Sono282 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 199.0 km²59.2% of basin
- 136.8 km²40.7% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
135.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
12 distinct species · 17 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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
1 569mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,17
Runoff
734mm/an
PET
1 882mm
AET
1 206mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
130cm
Forest
3%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)