HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080382520
Bassin de Riacho Várzea Grande
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 6 administrative regions : Brejo dos Santos, Catolé do Rocha, Jericó, Mato Grosso, Paulista +1
Sub-basin area
302,5km²
Upstream area
302,5km²
Discharge
0,78m³/s
Mean elev.
244m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 80.5 km²26.7% of basin
- 62.3 km²20.7% of basin
- 62.2 km²20.7% of basin
- 45.3 km²15.0% of basin
- 41.4 km²13.7% of basin
- 9.5 km²3.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
15 distinct species · 39 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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
803mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
92mm/an
PET
1 720mm
AET
679mm
Mean slope
3,2°
Water table
180cm
Forest
17%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)