HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080429160
Bassin de Rio Parnaíba
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 2 administrative regions : Ribeiro Gonçalves, Tasso Fragoso
Sub-basin area
207,6km²
Upstream area
27 057km²
Discharge
223m³/s
Mean elev.
380m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ribeirão da Babilônia1145 km²
- Bassin de Rio Parnaíba345 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 136.7 km²66.1% of basin
- 70.1 km²33.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 2 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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
1 216mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
331mm/an
PET
1 844mm
AET
1 027mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
240cm
Forest
45%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)