HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080414740
Bassin de Riacho do Bacabal
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 : Ribeiro Gonçalves, Sambaíba, Tasso Fragoso
Sub-basin area
710,3km²
Upstream area
30 520,7km²
Discharge
242,45m³/s
Mean elev.
364m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Parnaíba1603 km²
- Bassin de Riacho da Limpeza582 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 403.5 km²57.0% of basin
- 301.9 km²42.7% of basin
- 2.0 km²0.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 15 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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
1 095mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
313mm/an
PET
1 835mm
AET
925mm
Mean slope
4,9°
Water table
286cm
Forest
46%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)