HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080785410
Bassin de Rio Ribeira
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 2 administrative regions : Cerro Azul, Rio Branco do Sul
Sub-basin area
103,5km²
Upstream area
3 339,3km²
Discharge
65,64m³/s
Mean elev.
519m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Açungui1740 km²
- Bassin de Rio Socavão1497 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 71.6 km²69.4% of basin
- 31.6 km²30.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
20 distinct species · 63 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°
20,0°C
Annual rain
1 260mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
570mm/an
PET
1 457mm
AET
1 067mm
Mean slope
10,6°
Water table
403cm
Forest
25%
Crops
25%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)