HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080326050
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 2 administrative regions : Caxias, União
Sub-basin area
27,4km²
Upstream area
292 755,8km²
Discharge
907,58m³/s
Mean elev.
86m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Riacho do Tubiacanga817 km²
- Bassin de Rio Parnaíba335 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 18.8 km²69.0% of basin
- 8.5 km²31.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,4°C
Annual rain
1 460mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
308mm/an
PET
1 878mm
AET
1 023mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
184cm
Forest
51%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)