HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080421890
Bassin de Rio Canindé
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 : Conceição do Canindé, Jacobina do Piauí, São Francisco de Assis do Piauí
Sub-basin area
161,8km²
Upstream area
4 910,4km²
Discharge
4,19m³/s
Mean elev.
310m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Baixão da Ipueira598 km²
- Bassin de Rio Canindé78 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 150.3 km²93.3% of basin
- 7.5 km²4.7% of basin
- 3.4 km²2.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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
717mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
30mm/an
PET
1 904mm
AET
605mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
335cm
Forest
75%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)