HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080440270
Bassin de Rio Piauí
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 : Dom Inocêncio, São João do Piauí
Sub-basin area
22,9km²
Upstream area
11 555,1km²
Discharge
7,99m³/s
Mean elev.
278m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Riacho Poço dos Cavalos1880 km²
- Bassin de Rio Piauí1002 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 22.7 km²99.6% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
27,1°C
Annual rain
634mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,69
Runoff
13mm/an
PET
2 056mm
AET
534mm
Mean slope
3,4°
Water table
193cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)