HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080509400
Bassin de Rio das Balsas
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 4 administrative regions : Almas, Mateiros, Ponte Alta do Tocantins, Rio da Conceição
Sub-basin area
997,4km²
Upstream area
997,4km²
Discharge
19,08m³/s
Mean elev.
551m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 733.9 km²73.9% of basin
- 165.8 km²16.7% of basin
- 86.7 km²8.7% of basin
- 7.1 km²0.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Ecological Station
581.03 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
0.41 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
578 distinct species · 1 812 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°
24,9°C
Annual rain
1 496mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,18
Runoff
654mm/an
PET
1 833mm
AET
1 161mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
182cm
Forest
6%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
58%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)