HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080392480
Bassin de Riacho do Piteiro
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 : Ipiranga do Piauí, Oeiras, São João da Varjota
Sub-basin area
656,1km²
Upstream area
29 553,6km²
Discharge
43,82m³/s
Mean elev.
243m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Riacho Fundo1597 km²
- Bassin de Rio Canindé1260 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 562.7 km²86.1% of basin
- 87.5 km²13.4% of basin
- 3.1 km²0.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
237 distinct species · 570 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°
26,5°C
Annual rain
911mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,52
Runoff
86mm/an
PET
1 892mm
AET
770mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
354cm
Forest
19%
Crops
5%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)