HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080483630
Bassin de Igarapé Caipora
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 : Capixaba, Rio Branco, Xapuri
Sub-basin area
1 180,5km²
Upstream area
1 180,6km²
Discharge
19,86m³/s
Mean elev.
208m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 603.2 km²51.3% of basin
- 469.0 km²39.9% of basin
- 103.6 km²8.8% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Extractive Reserve
782.44 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
0.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
32 distinct species · 43 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
1 914mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,10
Runoff
544mm/an
PET
1 724mm
AET
1 358mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
60cm
Forest
91%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
67%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)