HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080336010
Bassin de Riacho da Cana Brava
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 : Buriti dos Montes, Crateús
Sub-basin area
457,6km²
Upstream area
457,7km²
Discharge
0,92m³/s
Mean elev.
555m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 452.9 km²99.4% of basin
- 2.7 km²0.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 23 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°
23,9°C
Annual rain
899mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
64mm/an
PET
1 696mm
AET
749mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
416cm
Forest
49%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)