HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080350420
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 : Alto Longá, Novo Santo Antônio, São João da Serra
Sub-basin area
532,1km²
Upstream area
25 011,4km²
Discharge
49,39m³/s
Mean elev.
175m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Riacho dos Canudos1415 km²
- Bassin de Rio Poti56 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 342.0 km²64.6% of basin
- 139.4 km²26.3% of basin
- 48.4 km²9.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
1.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
17 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°
26,5°C
Annual rain
1 195mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
144mm/an
PET
1 859mm
AET
918mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
148cm
Forest
3%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)