HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080579820
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 2 administrative regions : Cocos, Jaborandi
Sub-basin area
129,1km²
Upstream area
2 504,3km²
Discharge
33,69m³/s
Mean elev.
675m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Formoso1599 km²
- Bassin de Riacho dos Três Galhos776 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 89.5 km²69.6% of basin
- 39.1 km²30.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Wildlife Refuge
12.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 7 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
965mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
349mm/an
PET
1 767mm
AET
815mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
254cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)