HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080783570
Bassin de Rio Cantu
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 : Nova Cantu, Palmital, Roncador
Sub-basin area
12,3km²
Upstream area
1 489,7km²
Discharge
41,1m³/s
Mean elev.
491m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Cantu1140 km²
- Bassin de Rio Canca337 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 7.6 km²61.7% of basin
- 4.4 km²36.1% of basin
- 0.3 km²2.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 46 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°
19,8°C
Annual rain
1 604mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
828mm/an
PET
1 492mm
AET
1 353mm
Mean slope
10,2°
Water table
266cm
Forest
0%
Crops
33%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)