HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080238420
Bassin de Rio Piriá
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 : Cachoeira do Piriá, Viseu
Sub-basin area
524,4km²
Upstream area
3 692,3km²
Discharge
142,78m³/s
Mean elev.
30m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Piriá420 km²
- Bassin de Rio Piriá370 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 502.2 km²96.2% of basin
- 19.9 km²3.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
21 distinct species · 28 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
2 206mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,25
Runoff
1 354mm/an
PET
1 649mm
AET
1 303mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
21cm
Forest
33%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)