HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080384600
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 5 administrative regions : Lagoa, Mato Grosso, Paulista, Pombal, São Bentinho
Sub-basin area
238,1km²
Upstream area
16 077,3km²
Discharge
65,77m³/s
Mean elev.
228m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 121.0 km²51.0% of basin
- 110.0 km²46.4% of basin
- 5.1 km²2.1% of basin
- 1.0 km²0.4% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
25 distinct species · 30 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
743mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,57
Runoff
112mm/an
PET
1 711mm
AET
629mm
Mean slope
3,4°
Water table
215cm
Forest
19%
Crops
23%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)