HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080295390
Bassin de Rio Peritoró
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 : Cantanhede, Matões do Norte, Pirapemas
Sub-basin area
63,9km²
Upstream area
3 058,9km²
Discharge
48,13m³/s
Mean elev.
38m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Tapuio992 km²
- Bassin de Rio Peritoró694 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 38.1 km²59.8% of basin
- 22.5 km²35.3% of basin
- 3.1 km²4.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 3 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°
27,3°C
Annual rain
1 810mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
867mm/an
PET
1 739mm
AET
1 126mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
58cm
Forest
9%
Crops
24%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)