HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080354480
Bassin de Rio Sambito
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 4 administrative regions : Prata do Piauí, Santa Cruz dos Milagres, São João da Serra, São Miguel do Tapuio
Sub-basin area
172,1km²
Upstream area
16 533,8km²
Discharge
55,22m³/s
Mean elev.
128m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Sambito1806 km²
- Bassin de Rio São Nicolau478 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 107.1 km²62.5% of basin
- 62.3 km²36.3% of basin
- 1.0 km²0.6% of basin
- 0.9 km²0.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 2 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 232mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
185mm/an
PET
1 869mm
AET
959mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
131cm
Forest
0%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)