HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080634650
Bassin de Rio Vacaria
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 : Fruta de Leite, Grão Mogol, Padre Carvalho, Rubelita
Sub-basin area
291,6km²
Upstream area
2 506,9km²
Discharge
12,69m³/s
Mean elev.
747m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ribeirão Jequi356 km²
- Bassin de Rio Vacaria70 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 140.1 km²48.2% of basin
- 134.3 km²46.2% of basin
- 14.3 km²4.9% of basin
- 1.9 km²0.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
87 distinct species · 181 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°
21,3°C
Annual rain
982mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
135mm/an
PET
1 676mm
AET
829mm
Mean slope
7,5°
Water table
450cm
Forest
29%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)