HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080415890
Bassin de Rio Pajeú
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 : Afogados da Ingazeira, Iguaracy, Ingazeira, Tabira
Sub-basin area
64,8km²
Upstream area
2 917,6km²
Discharge
19,63m³/s
Mean elev.
589m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Pajeú1791 km²
- Bassin de Riacho do Cedro1062 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 43.4 km²67.2% of basin
- 14.1 km²21.8% of basin
- 6.4 km²9.9% of basin
- 0.7 km²1.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 8 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°
22,7°C
Annual rain
658mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,57
Runoff
201mm/an
PET
1 529mm
AET
558mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
220cm
Forest
23%
Crops
19%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)