HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080599670
Bassin de Rio das Mortes
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 : Barra do Garças, Nova Xavantina, Novo São Joaquim
Sub-basin area
2 113km²
Upstream area
20 714,9km²
Discharge
433,41m³/s
Mean elev.
478m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio das Mortes819 km²
- Bassin de Rio das Mortes619 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1105.7 km²52.5% of basin
- 765.0 km²36.3% of basin
- 234.8 km²11.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
São Marcos - MT
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Reserve
1096.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
48 distinct species · 74 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
1 652mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,12
Runoff
558mm/an
PET
1 869mm
AET
1 262mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
205cm
Forest
20%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
52%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)