HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080345530
Bassin de Rio Poti
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 : Castelo do Piauí, Novo Santo Antônio, São João da Serra
Sub-basin area
56,4km²
Upstream area
23 064,4km²
Discharge
39,55m³/s
Mean elev.
133m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Parafuso2016 km²
- Bassin de Rio do Cais345 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 37.1 km²66.1% of basin
- 18.7 km²33.3% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.5% 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
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,7°C
Annual rain
1 111mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
132mm/an
PET
1 871mm
AET
884mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
127cm
Forest
3%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)