HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080348960
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 8 administrative regions : Alto Longá, Barro Duro, Beneditinos, Lagoa do Piauí, Monsenhor Gil +3
Sub-basin area
765,1km²
Upstream area
48 436,8km²
Discharge
158,33m³/s
Mean elev.
146m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Poti325 km²
- Bassin de Rio Berlengas242 km²
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 389.7 km²51.2% of basin
- 158.3 km²20.8% of basin
- 115.2 km²15.1% of basin
- 70.1 km²9.2% of basin
- 17.7 km²2.3% of basin
- 7.1 km²0.9% of basin
- 3.6 km²0.5% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 35 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°
26,8°C
Annual rain
1 435mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
205mm/an
PET
1 864mm
AET
1 028mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
170cm
Forest
5%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)