HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080386850
Bassin de Rio Piranhas
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 4 administrative regions : Aparecida, Lagoa, Pombal, São Domingos
Sub-basin area
515,5km²
Upstream area
6 010,2km²
Discharge
20,29m³/s
Mean elev.
262m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 303.3 km²59.1% of basin
- 161.7 km²31.5% of basin
- 47.7 km²9.3% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
34 distinct species · 59 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
840mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,52
Runoff
85mm/an
PET
1 734mm
AET
710mm
Mean slope
3,4°
Water table
213cm
Forest
50%
Crops
19%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)