HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080577890
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
195,4km²
Upstream area
35 256,6km²
Discharge
43,89m³/s
Mean elev.
299m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio do Peixe2011 km²
- Bassin de Rio de Contas151 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 142.9 km²73.4% of basin
- 28.1 km²14.5% of basin
- 23.7 km²12.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
33 distinct species · 39 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°
23,5°C
Annual rain
520mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
36mm/an
PET
1 541mm
AET
440mm
Mean slope
3,7°
Water table
415cm
Forest
2%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)