HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080362370
Bassin de Rio São Nicolau
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 1 administrative regions : São Miguel do Tapuio
Sub-basin area
56,4km²
Upstream area
2 041,7km²
Discharge
4,4m³/s
Mean elev.
279m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio São Nicolau1057 km²
- Bassin de Riacho Bambuzeiro547 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 56.1 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 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°
25,8°C
Annual rain
913mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
77mm/an
PET
1 795mm
AET
771mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
185cm
Forest
14%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)