HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080577450
Bassin de Rio Formoso
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 : Cocos, Coribe, Jaborandi
Sub-basin area
241,8km²
Upstream area
6 415km²
Discharge
95,46m³/s
Mean elev.
684m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Pratudão River245 km²
- Bassin de Rio Formoso129 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 121.8 km²50.6% of basin
- 119.0 km²49.4% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
41 distinct species · 46 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°
23,4°C
Annual rain
962mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
358mm/an
PET
1 763mm
AET
812mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
265cm
Forest
1%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)