HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080279200
Bassin de Rio Parnaíba
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 : Araioses, Buriti dos Lopes
Sub-basin area
50,2km²
Upstream area
328 911,3km²
Discharge
1 020,88m³/s
Mean elev.
32m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Longá2400 km²
- Bassin de Rio Parnaíba429 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 36.3 km²72.6% of basin
- 13.7 km²27.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
12.35 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 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°
27,2°C
Annual rain
1 366mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
597mm/an
PET
1 717mm
AET
961mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
222cm
Forest
3%
Crops
27%
Urban
0%
Protected
28%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)