HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080415850
Bassin de Riacho Terra Nova
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 6 administrative regions : Nova Santa Rita, Paes Landim, Pedro Laurentino, Simplício Mendes, Socorro do Piauí +1
Sub-basin area
822,8km²
Upstream area
822,9km²
Discharge
0,85m³/s
Mean elev.
283m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 521.1 km²63.6% of basin
- 243.1 km²29.7% of basin
- 24.7 km²3.0% of basin
- 16.7 km²2.0% of basin
- 9.2 km²1.1% of basin
- 4.4 km²0.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
11 distinct species · 16 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
730mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,64
Runoff
32mm/an
PET
2 018mm
AET
616mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
418cm
Forest
65%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)