HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080434800
Bassin de Rio Uruçuí Preto
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 : Baixa Grande do Ribeiro, Currais, Palmeira do Piauí
Sub-basin area
558km²
Upstream area
6 548,2km²
Discharge
29,55m³/s
Mean elev.
461m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Uruçuí Preto1458 km²
- Bassin de Riacho da Solta753 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 338.4 km²60.9% of basin
- 127.2 km²22.9% of basin
- 90.1 km²16.2% 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°
25,7°C
Annual rain
979mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
148mm/an
PET
1 843mm
AET
827mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
335cm
Forest
39%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)