HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080440310
Bassin de Riacho Traíras
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 : Belém do São Francisco, Cabrobó
Sub-basin area
21,3km²
Upstream area
4 946,7km²
Discharge
26,07m³/s
Mean elev.
334m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Riacho Ouricuri1066 km²
- Bassin de Riacho Terra Nova1036 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 13.5 km²63.9% of basin
- 7.6 km²36.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
11 distinct species · 18 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°
25,3°C
Annual rain
567mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,67
Runoff
153mm/an
PET
1 705mm
AET
478mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
92cm
Forest
3%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)