HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080578000
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, Contendas do Sincorá, Manoel Vitorino
Sub-basin area
67km²
Upstream area
32 733,7km²
Discharge
42,63m³/s
Mean elev.
314m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Sincorá1451 km²
- Bassin de Rio de Contas479 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 46.7 km²69.9% of basin
- 19.8 km²29.6% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
23,8°C
Annual rain
561mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
32mm/an
PET
1 588mm
AET
474mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
426cm
Forest
1%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)