HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080381170
Bassin de Rio Piranhas-Açu
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 : Paulista, Riacho dos Cavalos, Vista Serrana
Sub-basin area
167,6km²
Upstream area
17 369,6km²
Discharge
71m³/s
Mean elev.
206m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 150.6 km²90.2% of basin
- 16.0 km²9.6% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 13 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
690mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
126mm/an
PET
1 701mm
AET
584mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
194cm
Forest
16%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)