HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080630230
Bassin de Rio Urucuia
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 : Arinos, Riachinho, Urucuia
Sub-basin area
212,2km²
Upstream area
17 908,3km²
Discharge
206,93m³/s
Mean elev.
549m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ribeirão da Areia1714 km²
- Bassin de Rio Urucuia158 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 191.5 km²90.5% of basin
- 18.3 km²8.7% of basin
- 1.7 km²0.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
20 distinct species · 40 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°
23,6°C
Annual rain
1 166mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
348mm/an
PET
1 811mm
AET
986mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
77cm
Forest
1%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)