HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080439270
Bassin de Riacho Ouricuri
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 5 administrative regions : Belém do São Francisco, Cabrobó, Carnaubeira da Penha, Mirandiba, Salgueiro
Sub-basin area
1 066,1km²
Upstream area
1 066,1km²
Discharge
5,26m³/s
Mean elev.
467m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 553.3 km²52.1% of basin
- 263.4 km²24.8% of basin
- 185.6 km²17.5% of basin
- 51.8 km²4.9% of basin
- 7.4 km²0.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Atikum
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
68.87 km² overlap
Wildlife Refuge
0.83 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
159 distinct species · 365 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Riacho Ouricuri : 28 espèces reliées par 34 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 5.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
23,9°C
Annual rain
563mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
156mm/an
PET
1 665mm
AET
475mm
Mean slope
3,9°
Water table
268cm
Forest
28%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)