HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080373690
Bassin de Riacho da Cana Brava
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 3 administrative regions : Lagoa do Mato, Sucupira do Riachão, São Francisco do Maranhão
Sub-basin area
197,5km²
Upstream area
197,6km²
Discharge
1,01m³/s
Mean elev.
299m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 138.5 km²70.4% of basin
- 52.7 km²26.8% of basin
- 5.5 km²2.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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°
26,3°C
Annual rain
1 227mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
162mm/an
PET
1 789mm
AET
986mm
Mean slope
4,5°
Water table
305cm
Forest
46%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)