HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080373000
Bassin de Riacho Fundo
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 5 administrative regions : Assunção do Piauí, Parambu, Pimenteiras, Quiterianópolis, São Miguel do Tapuio
Sub-basin area
1 854,8km²
Upstream area
1 854,8km²
Discharge
4,7m³/s
Mean elev.
559m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1668.0 km²90.3% of basin
- 160.9 km²8.7% of basin
- 6.6 km²0.4% of basin
- 5.8 km²0.3% of basin
- 5.5 km²0.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
29 distinct species · 40 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°
24,0°C
Annual rain
818mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
74mm/an
PET
1 676mm
AET
691mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
497cm
Forest
6%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)