HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080395310
Bassin de Rio Farinha
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 : Carolina, Feira Nova do Maranhão, Riachão, São Pedro dos Crentes
Sub-basin area
356,1km²
Upstream area
2 629,4km²
Discharge
46,51m³/s
Mean elev.
366m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Farinha367 km²
- Bassin de Rio Farinha12 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 230.0 km²64.9% of basin
- 84.6 km²23.9% of basin
- 20.0 km²5.6% of basin
- 19.8 km²5.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 5 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°
25,3°C
Annual rain
1 380mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
662mm/an
PET
1 797mm
AET
1 121mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
130cm
Forest
5%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)