HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080402470
Bassin de Rio Piauí
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 : Nazaré do Piauí, São Francisco do Piauí, São José do Peixe
Sub-basin area
262,2km²
Upstream area
34 490,9km²
Discharge
12,09m³/s
Mean elev.
212m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Arroio Riachinho376 km²
- Bassin de Rio Piauí36 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 195.7 km²75.0% of basin
- 42.8 km²16.4% of basin
- 22.6 km²8.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
70 distinct species · 83 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
915mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
72mm/an
PET
1 929mm
AET
773mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
308cm
Forest
17%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)