HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080553860
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 5 administrative regions : Boa Vista do Tupim, Iaçu, Itaberaba, Marcionílio Souza, Planaltino
Sub-basin area
618,7km²
Upstream area
20 256,6km²
Discharge
57,24m³/s
Mean elev.
394m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080557590546 km²
- Bassin de Rio Paraguaçu381 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 347.4 km²56.4% of basin
- 264.5 km²42.9% of basin
- 4.1 km²0.7% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
54 distinct species · 72 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°
22,6°C
Annual rain
717mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
58mm/an
PET
1 473mm
AET
607mm
Mean slope
8,5°
Water table
576cm
Forest
4%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)