HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080450630
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 2 administrative regions : Casa Nova, Petrolina
Sub-basin area
395,3km²
Upstream area
395,3km²
Discharge
0,95m³/s
Mean elev.
441m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 390.3 km²99.1% of basin
- 3.4 km²0.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Wildlife Refuge
0.89 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 6 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°
24,8°C
Annual rain
468mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,75
Runoff
76mm/an
PET
1 910mm
AET
393mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
125cm
Forest
43%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)