HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080369730
Bassin de Riacho dos Ferros
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 : Parambu, Pimenteiras, Quiterianópolis, Tauá
Sub-basin area
1 605,7km²
Upstream area
1 605,9km²
Discharge
2,27m³/s
Mean elev.
519m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1180.2 km²73.8% of basin
- 414.2 km²25.9% of basin
- 2.5 km²0.2% of basin
- 1.9 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
73 distinct species · 119 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°
24,4°C
Annual rain
662mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,60
Runoff
47mm/an
PET
1 652mm
AET
560mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
305cm
Forest
1%
Crops
18%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)