HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080585640
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 : Ibirataia, Ipiaú, Itagibá
Sub-basin area
125,2km²
Upstream area
46 776,9km²
Discharge
69,9m³/s
Mean elev.
200m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Água Branca282 km²
- Bassin de Rio de Contas72 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 92.2 km²73.9% of basin
- 32.1 km²25.8% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
618 distinct species · 1 949 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°
23,3°C
Annual rain
1 266mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
282mm/an
PET
1 307mm
AET
1 076mm
Mean slope
6,9°
Water table
397cm
Forest
22%
Crops
27%
Urban
5%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)