HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080577640
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 : Barra da Estiva, Iramaia, Manoel Vitorino
Sub-basin area
151km²
Upstream area
33 050,4km²
Discharge
42,34m³/s
Mean elev.
314m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio de Contas166 km²
- Bassin de Rio de Contas67 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 124.3 km²82.6% of basin
- 25.8 km²17.1% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.2% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
2.30 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
0.91 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
20 distinct species · 23 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°
23,7°C
Annual rain
530mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
35mm/an
PET
1 577mm
AET
447mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
475cm
Forest
8%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)