HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080677720
Bassin de Rio Cotaxé
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 5 administrative regions : Boa Esperança, Ecoporanga, Nova Venécia, Pinheiros, Ponto Belo
Sub-basin area
206,1km²
Upstream area
6 262,7km²
Discharge
60,71m³/s
Mean elev.
181m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Cotaxé1013 km²
- Bassin de Rio Dois de Setembro492 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 77.5 km²37.7% of basin
- 71.0 km²34.5% of basin
- Boa Esperança52.7 km²25.7% of basin
- 4.0 km²1.9% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
37 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°
23,8°C
Annual rain
1 075mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
318mm/an
PET
1 584mm
AET
908mm
Mean slope
6,5°
Water table
290cm
Forest
4%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)