HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080425200
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 : Jacobina do Piauí, Paulistana, São Francisco de Assis do Piauí
Sub-basin area
77,9km²
Upstream area
4 150,7km²
Discharge
3,14m³/s
Mean elev.
313m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio dos Pilões2256 km²
- Bassin de Rio Canindé1817 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 68.9 km²88.9% of basin
- 7.4 km²9.5% of basin
- 1.2 km²1.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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
662mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,64
Runoff
27mm/an
PET
1 860mm
AET
558mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
268cm
Forest
30%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)