HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080419740
Bassin de Riacho Jatobá
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 : Bela Vista do Piauí, Nova Santa Rita, Simplício Mendes
Sub-basin area
497,4km²
Upstream area
497,4km²
Discharge
0,6m³/s
Mean elev.
312m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 286.5 km²57.8% of basin
- 190.5 km²38.5% of basin
- 18.3 km²3.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 7 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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
700mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
35mm/an
PET
1 990mm
AET
591mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
406cm
Forest
79%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)