HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080301780
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 5 administrative regions : Brejo, Buriti, Duque Bacelar, Miguel Alves, Porto
Sub-basin area
944,1km²
Upstream area
297 031,9km²
Discharge
895,36m³/s
Mean elev.
67m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Riachão das Piranhas507 km²
- Bassin de Rio Parnaíba312 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 494.2 km²52.6% of basin
- 226.4 km²24.1% of basin
- 126.8 km²13.5% of basin
- 91.9 km²9.8% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
620.38 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
49 distinct species · 84 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 730mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
445mm/an
PET
1 838mm
AET
1 100mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
98cm
Forest
64%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
66%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)