HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080542750
Bassin de Rio Ponte Alta
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 : Arraias, Ponte Alta do Bom Jesus, Taguatinga, Taipas do Tocantins
Sub-basin area
20,9km²
Upstream area
6 916,8km²
Discharge
128,02m³/s
Mean elev.
347m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Ponte Alta2023 km²
- Bassin de Rio Palma728 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 14.7 km²70.5% of basin
- 4.5 km²21.6% of basin
- 1.2 km²5.7% of basin
- 0.5 km²2.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
26,3°C
Annual rain
1 524mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,17
Runoff
554mm/an
PET
1 829mm
AET
1 167mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
48cm
Forest
10%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)