HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080394820
Bassin de Riacho do Uruçu
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 6 administrative regions : Antônio Almeida, Benedito Leite, Landri Sales, Porto Alegre do Piauí, Sebastião Leal +1
Sub-basin area
738,9km²
Upstream area
81 594,6km²
Discharge
529,09m³/s
Mean elev.
323m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Riacho de Sangue2221 km²
- Bassin de Vereda do Mocambo91 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 501.5 km²68.2% of basin
- 127.3 km²17.3% of basin
- 64.8 km²8.8% of basin
- 34.6 km²4.7% of basin
- 7.4 km²1.0% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
28 distinct species · 30 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
1 075mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
223mm/an
PET
1 821mm
AET
908mm
Mean slope
4,0°
Water table
318cm
Forest
32%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)