HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080500010
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 : Itaúba, Nova Canaã do Norte
Sub-basin area
349,6km²
Upstream area
43 932,3km²
Discharge
799,57m³/s
Mean elev.
292m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio da Saudade891 km²
- Bassin de Rio Teles Pires410 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 346.4 km²99.5% of basin
- 1.8 km²0.5% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
7.81 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
1.45 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
19 distinct species · 21 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
1 970mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,01
Runoff
485mm/an
PET
1 946mm
AET
1 349mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
127cm
Forest
58%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)