HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080420040
Bassin de Rio Fidalgo
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 5 administrative regions : Bela Vista do Piauí, Nova Santa Rita, Pedro Laurentino, Simplício Mendes, São João do Piauí
Sub-basin area
757,4km²
Upstream area
2 010,3km²
Discharge
1,53m³/s
Mean elev.
307m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Riacho do Fidalgo822 km²
- Bassin de Riacho Queimadas431 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 570.5 km²75.6% of basin
- 81.4 km²10.8% of basin
- 37.6 km²5.0% of basin
- 35.0 km²4.6% of basin
- 29.6 km²3.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
39 distinct species · 64 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°
26,8°C
Annual rain
688mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
27mm/an
PET
2 019mm
AET
580mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
440cm
Forest
67%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)