HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080347220
Bassin de Rio do Cais
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 : Castelo do Piauí, São Miguel do Tapuio
Sub-basin area
353,8km²
Upstream area
353,8km²
Discharge
0,95m³/s
Mean elev.
368m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 233.6 km²66.3% of basin
- 118.7 km²33.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 17 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°
25,2°C
Annual rain
909mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
86mm/an
PET
1 776mm
AET
764mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
283cm
Forest
15%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)