HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080829130
Bassin de Rio Pelotas
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 : Bom Jesus, Lages, São Joaquim
Sub-basin area
104,9km²
Upstream area
2 866km²
Discharge
77,61m³/s
Mean elev.
956m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Cerquinha491 km²
- Bassin de Rio Pelotas287 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Bom Jesus53.8 km²51.3% of basin
- 50.9 km²48.7% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
24 distinct species · 34 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°
15,9°C
Annual rain
1 631mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,26
Runoff
786mm/an
PET
1 200mm
AET
1 137mm
Mean slope
11,5°
Water table
405cm
Forest
43%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)