HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080406640
Bassin de Rio Parnaíba
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 2 administrative regions : Benedito Leite, Uruçuí
Sub-basin area
9km²
Upstream area
33 033,4km²
Discharge
242,77m³/s
Mean elev.
242m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Parnaíba384 km²
- Bassin · #6080406930213 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 6.0 km²66.5% of basin
- 3.0 km²33.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 4 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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
1 056mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
221mm/an
PET
1 852mm
AET
893mm
Mean slope
3,4°
Water table
278cm
Forest
5%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)