HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080450140
Bassin de Rio Parnaíba
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 : Alto Parnaíba, Santa Filomena
Sub-basin area
56,4km²
Upstream area
16 002km²
Discharge
154,04m³/s
Mean elev.
328m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Medonho2732 km²
- Bassin de Rio Taquara1209 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 37.0 km²65.9% of basin
- 19.2 km²34.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
21 distinct species · 27 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°
26,1°C
Annual rain
1 289mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
318mm/an
PET
1 881mm
AET
1 067mm
Mean slope
3,7°
Water table
183cm
Forest
16%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)