HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080391520
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 2 administrative regions : Nova Iorque, Porto Alegre do Piauí
Sub-basin area
122,5km²
Upstream area
82 715,8km²
Discharge
524,59m³/s
Mean elev.
225m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Riacho do Engano319 km²
- Bassin de Rio Parnaíba40 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 75.3 km²61.7% of basin
- 46.7 km²38.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
27,0°C
Annual rain
1 074mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
237mm/an
PET
1 829mm
AET
908mm
Mean slope
4,0°
Water table
327cm
Forest
24%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)