HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080409530
Bassin de Riacho Santana
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 5 administrative regions : Curral Velho, Diamante, Ibiara, Santana de Mangueira, Serra Talhada
Sub-basin area
175km²
Upstream area
593,1km²
Discharge
2,08m³/s
Mean elev.
426m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Riacho Santana233 km²
- Bassin de Riacho Santana185 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 145.7 km²83.6% of basin
- 25.1 km²14.4% of basin
- 2.6 km²1.5% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.4% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
30 distinct species · 46 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°
24,4°C
Annual rain
869mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
123mm/an
PET
1 647mm
AET
734mm
Mean slope
5,3°
Water table
268cm
Forest
18%
Crops
18%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)