HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080340960
Bassin de Riacho Belém
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 : Alto Santo, Apodi, São João do Jaguaribe, Tabuleiro do Norte
Sub-basin area
524,3km²
Upstream area
524,3km²
Discharge
1,32m³/s
Mean elev.
123m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 232.3 km²44.5% of basin
- 229.1 km²43.9% of basin
- 57.8 km²11.1% of basin
- 2.8 km²0.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
14 distinct species · 18 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
754mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
86mm/an
PET
1 779mm
AET
637mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
180cm
Forest
36%
Crops
18%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)