HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080610910
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 : Novo São Joaquim, Poxoréu, Primavera do Leste
Sub-basin area
1 048,6km²
Upstream area
10 246,6km²
Discharge
217,08m³/s
Mean elev.
599m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio das Mortes1112 km²
- Bassin de Rio das Mortes68 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 724.9 km²69.4% of basin
- 214.0 km²20.5% of basin
- 106.1 km²10.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sangradouro/Volta Grande
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
290.77 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
23 distinct species · 44 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°
22,1°C
Annual rain
1 793mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,01
Runoff
659mm/an
PET
1 770mm
AET
1 268mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
114cm
Forest
21%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
28%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)