HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080496850
Bassin · #6080496850
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 : Barra, Pilão Arcado, Xique-Xique
Sub-basin area
892,6km²
Upstream area
892,7km²
Discharge
1,24m³/s
Mean elev.
487m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 681.6 km²76.7% of basin
- 207.2 km²23.3% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
888.98 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
31 distinct species · 51 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°
25,4°C
Annual rain
708mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,64
Runoff
44mm/an
PET
1 971mm
AET
596mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
410cm
Forest
24%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)