HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080413270
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 3 administrative regions : Manaíra, Santana de Mangueira, Serra Talhada
Sub-basin area
185,2km²
Upstream area
185,3km²
Discharge
0,69m³/s
Mean elev.
629m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 121.6 km²65.9% of basin
- 60.0 km²32.5% of basin
- 2.8 km²1.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
22,9°C
Annual rain
819mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
123mm/an
PET
1 586mm
AET
693mm
Mean slope
6,4°
Water table
428cm
Forest
61%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)