HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080387950
Bassin de Rio Parnaíba
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 : Nova Iorque, Pastos Bons, Porto Alegre do Piauí
Sub-basin area
242,3km²
Upstream area
242,4km²
Discharge
1,72m³/s
Mean elev.
262m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 128.5 km²53.3% of basin
- 112.5 km²46.6% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
17 distinct species · 21 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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
1 208mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
227mm/an
PET
1 810mm
AET
1 004mm
Mean slope
4,2°
Water table
344cm
Forest
19%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)