HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080424530
Bassin de Riacho Tabócas
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 : Belo Jardim, Brejo da Madre de Deus, Caruaru
Sub-basin area
408,6km²
Upstream area
408,6km²
Discharge
0,77m³/s
Mean elev.
609m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 228.8 km²56.2% of basin
- 143.0 km²35.1% of basin
- 35.1 km²8.6% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
251.73 km² overlap
Wildlife Refuge
7.34 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
1.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
582 distinct species · 2 195 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°
22,0°C
Annual rain
580mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,61
Runoff
77mm/an
PET
1 500mm
AET
493mm
Mean slope
7,3°
Water table
548cm
Forest
14%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)