HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080564150
Bassin de Rio de Contas
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 : Abaíra, Mucugê, Piatã
Sub-basin area
453,6km²
Upstream area
453,6km²
Discharge
1,32m³/s
Mean elev.
1 232m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 421.3 km²93.2% of basin
- 22.8 km²5.0% of basin
- 7.8 km²1.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Area of Relevant Ecological Interest
14.55 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 081 distinct species · 5 338 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°
19,4°C
Annual rain
930mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
110mm/an
PET
1 561mm
AET
786mm
Mean slope
7,4°
Water table
592cm
Forest
33%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)