HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080314630
Bassin de Rio Piranji
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 4 administrative regions : Beberibe, Cascavel, Chorozinho, Ocara
Sub-basin area
285,2km²
Upstream area
2 755,2km²
Discharge
10,4m³/s
Mean elev.
69m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Piranji920 km²
- Bassin de Córrego de Santa Maria202 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 120.2 km²42.3% of basin
- 98.6 km²34.7% of basin
- 51.6 km²18.2% of basin
- 13.5 km²4.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 20 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°
26,5°C
Annual rain
872mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
166mm/an
PET
1 634mm
AET
737mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
112cm
Forest
48%
Crops
34%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)