HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080546240
Bassin de Rio Tocantins
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 : Palmeirópolis, Paranã, São Salvador do Tocantins
Sub-basin area
964,4km²
Upstream area
64 795,3km²
Discharge
1 073,21m³/s
Mean elev.
361m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Tocantins390 km²
- Bassin de Rio Tocantins272 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 573.4 km²59.7% of basin
- 277.2 km²28.9% of basin
- 110.1 km²11.5% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
189.18 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
7.41 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
694 distinct species · 2 058 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°
25,7°C
Annual rain
1 487mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,17
Runoff
472mm/an
PET
1 803mm
AET
1 126mm
Mean slope
4,8°
Water table
193cm
Forest
24%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
20%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)