HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080507410
Bassin de Rio Capitão Cardoso
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 : Aripuanã, Juína, Vilhena
Sub-basin area
2 462,9km²
Upstream area
10 488,7km²
Discharge
270,96m³/s
Mean elev.
304m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1366.6 km²55.7% of basin
- 1073.7 km²43.8% of basin
- 12.9 km²0.5% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Parque do Aripuanã
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
1543.32 km² overlap
Aripuanã
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
905.60 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
15 distinct species · 23 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°
23,5°C
Annual rain
1 943mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
790mm/an
PET
1 781mm
AET
1 267mm
Mean slope
4,9°
Water table
229cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)