HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080387280
Bassin de Riacho dos Pombos
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 2 administrative regions : Nova Iorque, Porto Alegre do Piauí
Sub-basin area
109km²
Upstream area
83 689,4km²
Discharge
512,71m³/s
Mean elev.
208m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Parnaíba360 km²
- Bassin de Rio Parnaíba242 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 71.8 km²66.1% of basin
- 36.7 km²33.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
12 distinct species · 20 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°
27,1°C
Annual rain
1 118mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
229mm/an
PET
1 823mm
AET
944mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
268cm
Forest
14%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)