HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080393750
Bassin de Riacho do Engano
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 : Antônio Almeida, Landri Sales, Nova Iorque, Porto Alegre do Piauí
Sub-basin area
319,3km²
Upstream area
319,5km²
Discharge
2,32m³/s
Mean elev.
304m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 275.7 km²86.7% of basin
- 39.0 km²12.3% of basin
- 3.2 km²1.0% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
32 distinct species · 40 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°
26,6°C
Annual rain
1 068mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
232mm/an
PET
1 818mm
AET
903mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
334cm
Forest
15%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)