HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080450400
Bassin de Riacho Pontal
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 1 administrative regions : Petrolina
Sub-basin area
223km²
Upstream area
3 859,2km²
Discharge
8,63m³/s
Mean elev.
437m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,7°C
Annual rain
505mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
108mm/an
PET
1 878mm
AET
425mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
139cm
Forest
25%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)