HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080396910
Bassin de Riacho Papagaio
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 : Floriano, Itaueira, Nazaré do Piauí
Sub-basin area
875,5km²
Upstream area
875,5km²
Discharge
2,97m³/s
Mean elev.
235m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 447.5 km²51.3% of basin
- 410.7 km²47.1% of basin
- 13.6 km²1.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 24 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°
27,1°C
Annual rain
964mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
111mm/an
PET
1 866mm
AET
815mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
224cm
Forest
3%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)