HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080425130
Bassin de Riacho Fundo
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 : Brejo do Piauí, Pajeú do Piauí, Ribeira do Piauí
Sub-basin area
400,9km²
Upstream area
6 582,5km²
Discharge
10,22m³/s
Mean elev.
282m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Riacho Cajazeiras2151 km²
- Bassin de Riacho do Brejo73 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 280.9 km²70.4% of basin
- 103.9 km²26.0% of basin
- 14.4 km²3.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
155.04 km² overlap
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°
27,0°C
Annual rain
794mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,60
Runoff
39mm/an
PET
2 009mm
AET
670mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
431cm
Forest
39%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)