HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080315140
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 3 administrative regions : Aldeias Altas, Caxias, Coelho Neto
Sub-basin area
259,9km²
Upstream area
259,9km²
Discharge
2,56m³/s
Mean elev.
106m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 250.0 km²96.6% of basin
- 8.8 km²3.4% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
29 distinct species · 56 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°
27,1°C
Annual rain
1 542mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,17
Runoff
324mm/an
PET
1 857mm
AET
1 058mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
114cm
Forest
75%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)