HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080578150
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 1 administrative regions : Jequié
Sub-basin area
92,3km²
Upstream area
39 829,5km²
Discharge
49,89m³/s
Mean elev.
479m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio de Contas701 km²
- Bassin de Riacho Santa Clara163 km²
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 20 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°
22,0°C
Annual rain
645mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
68mm/an
PET
1 394mm
AET
546mm
Mean slope
11,7°
Water table
689cm
Forest
29%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)