HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080407780
Bassin de Riacho de Porcos
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 7 administrative regions : Brejo Santo, Jardim, Jati, Mauriti, Porteiras +2
Sub-basin area
620,3km²
Upstream area
2 510,2km²
Discharge
12,58m³/s
Mean elev.
481m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Riacho Jardim1642 km²
- Bassin de Riacho Jurema248 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 342.5 km²55.4% of basin
- 135.5 km²21.9% of basin
- 116.6 km²18.9% of basin
- 18.3 km²3.0% of basin
- 4.5 km²0.7% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
17.97 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
558 distinct species · 1 625 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°
24,2°C
Annual rain
826mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
170mm/an
PET
1 671mm
AET
699mm
Mean slope
4,1°
Water table
255cm
Forest
28%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)