HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080548820
Bassin de Rio Paraguaçu
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 6 administrative regions : Iaçu, Ipirá, Itaberaba, Itatim, Rafael Jambeiro +1
Sub-basin area
928,8km²
Upstream area
32 980,7km²
Discharge
77,17m³/s
Mean elev.
258m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Paraguaçu813 km²
- Bassin de Rio Capivari405 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 408.5 km²44.1% of basin
- 198.9 km²21.5% of basin
- 154.0 km²16.6% of basin
- 109.8 km²11.9% of basin
- 53.9 km²5.8% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
816 distinct species · 4 950 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°
23,0°C
Annual rain
596mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,57
Runoff
59mm/an
PET
1 399mm
AET
506mm
Mean slope
3,4°
Water table
330cm
Forest
3%
Crops
8%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)