HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080373160
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 2 administrative regions : Lagoa do Sítio, Pimenteiras
Sub-basin area
330,1km²
Upstream area
2 780,8km²
Discharge
6,04m³/s
Mean elev.
370m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Riacho Baixão do Deserto1523 km²
- Bassin de Rio Sambito928 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 190.1 km²57.9% of basin
- 138.5 km²42.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
20 distinct species · 20 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°
25,4°C
Annual rain
886mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,50
Runoff
88mm/an
PET
1 766mm
AET
749mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
357cm
Forest
12%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)