HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080838830
Bassin de Rio Fão
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 : Barros Cassal, Boqueirão do Leão, Fontoura Xavier, Pouso Novo, Progresso
Sub-basin area
211,2km²
Upstream area
961,2km²
Discharge
25,65m³/s
Mean elev.
485m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Fão620 km²
- Bassin de Arroio Braz130 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 87.9 km²41.7% of basin
- 64.1 km²30.4% of basin
- 48.8 km²23.1% of basin
- 10.2 km²4.8% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 14 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°
18,0°C
Annual rain
1 468mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,12
Runoff
765mm/an
PET
1 291mm
AET
1 181mm
Mean slope
14,7°
Water table
526cm
Forest
63%
Crops
18%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)