HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080420020
Bassin de Riacho da Limpeza
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 : Balsas, Sambaíba, Tasso Fragoso
Sub-basin area
582,1km²
Upstream area
582,1km²
Discharge
6,1m³/s
Mean elev.
395m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 328.6 km²56.7% of basin
- 241.3 km²41.6% of basin
- 9.8 km²1.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
24 distinct species · 46 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°
25,7°C
Annual rain
1 161mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
331mm/an
PET
1 826mm
AET
981mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
204cm
Forest
41%
Crops
17%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)