HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080325940
Bassin de Riacho dos Cavalos
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 : Caxias, José de Freitas, Teresina, União
Sub-basin area
301,4km²
Upstream area
301,4km²
Discharge
2,76m³/s
Mean elev.
108m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 155.1 km²51.7% of basin
- 123.6 km²41.2% of basin
- 21.3 km²7.1% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
31 distinct species · 80 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 456mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
264mm/an
PET
1 878mm
AET
1 018mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
134cm
Forest
34%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)