HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080398940
Bassin de Riacho da Tranqueira
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 : Colônia do Piauí, Oeiras, São Francisco do Piauí
Sub-basin area
86km²
Upstream area
2 148,8km²
Discharge
5,12m³/s
Mean elev.
225m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 46.0 km²53.7% of basin
- 24.5 km²28.6% of basin
- 15.2 km²17.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
26,9°C
Annual rain
922mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,52
Runoff
80mm/an
PET
1 924mm
AET
779mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
232cm
Forest
26%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)