HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080346800
Bassin de Riacho do Bandarra
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 : Beneditinos, Lagoa do Piauí, Monsenhor Gil
Sub-basin area
147,3km²
Upstream area
48 937km²
Discharge
161,71m³/s
Mean elev.
115m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Poti765 km²
- Bassin de Riacho do Corrente353 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 86.5 km²59.0% of basin
- 59.7 km²40.7% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 14 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°
27,0°C
Annual rain
1 465mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
223mm/an
PET
1 874mm
AET
1 028mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
155cm
Forest
12%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)