HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080598520
Bassin de Rio Gavião
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 4 administrative regions : Belo Campo, Caraíbas, Maetinga, Tremedal
Sub-basin area
380,7km²
Upstream area
5 861,8km²
Discharge
11,26m³/s
Mean elev.
550m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ribeirão Tapiocanga826 km²
- Bassin de Rio Gavião63 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 196.1 km²51.7% of basin
- 134.4 km²35.4% of basin
- 43.6 km²11.5% of basin
- 5.2 km²1.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 6 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°
22,7°C
Annual rain
691mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,57
Runoff
47mm/an
PET
1 605mm
AET
584mm
Mean slope
4,5°
Water table
506cm
Forest
1%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)