HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080412260
Bassin de Ribeira do Fidalgo
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 4 administrative regions : Santo Inácio do Piauí, Simplício Mendes, São José do Peixe, São Miguel do Fidalgo
Sub-basin area
692,1km²
Upstream area
4 273,6km²
Discharge
4,31m³/s
Mean elev.
246m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Riacho Terra Nova823 km²
- Bassin de Rio Fidalgo251 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 400.7 km²58.1% of basin
- 241.8 km²35.1% of basin
- 46.1 km²6.7% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 12 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
704mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,64
Runoff
51mm/an
PET
1 970mm
AET
594mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
294cm
Forest
73%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)