HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080311960
Bassin de Riacho da Baunilha
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 : Aldeias Altas, Caxias, Coelho Neto
Sub-basin area
253,6km²
Upstream area
253,6km²
Discharge
2,51m³/s
Mean elev.
94m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 248.0 km²98.2% of basin
- 2.9 km²1.2% of basin
- 1.7 km²0.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
0.48 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 10 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 593mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,14
Runoff
337mm/an
PET
1 846mm
AET
1 074mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
120cm
Forest
61%
Crops
19%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)