HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080817590
Bassin de Rio Canoas
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 : Correia Pinto, Palmeira, Ponte Alta
Sub-basin area
132,5km²
Upstream area
3 827,7km²
Discharge
67,15m³/s
Mean elev.
869m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio das Águas Pretas225 km²
- Bassin de Rio Canoas149 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 79.8 km²60.3% of basin
- Palmeira52.4 km²39.6% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 7 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°
16,1°C
Annual rain
1 534mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,17
Runoff
613mm/an
PET
1 274mm
AET
1 165mm
Mean slope
3,7°
Water table
159cm
Forest
79%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)