HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080583420
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 : Brumado, Ituaçu, Tanhaçu
Sub-basin area
6,3km²
Upstream area
17 288,7km²
Discharge
26,32m³/s
Mean elev.
372m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio de Contas902 km²
- Bassin de Rio Brumado312 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 3.7 km²59.2% of basin
- 2.5 km²40.2% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 3 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°
24,2°C
Annual rain
588mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
30mm/an
PET
1 661mm
AET
498mm
Mean slope
4,9°
Water table
448cm
Forest
0%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)