HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080435180
Bassin de Riacho do Boqueirão
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, São Raimundo Nonato, Tamboril do Piauí
Sub-basin area
738,1km²
Upstream area
738,1km²
Discharge
0,62m³/s
Mean elev.
502m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 314.1 km²42.7% of basin
- 313.8 km²42.7% of basin
- 107.2 km²14.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ecological Station
144.69 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
39 distinct species · 50 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
825mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
27mm/an
PET
1 992mm
AET
697mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
460cm
Forest
56%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)