HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080451690
Bassin de Riacho São José
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 3 administrative regions : Afrânio, Casa Nova, Queimada Nova
Sub-basin area
315,8km²
Upstream area
315,8km²
Discharge
0,23m³/s
Mean elev.
513m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 312.5 km²99.4% of basin
- 1.5 km²0.5% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.1% 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°
25,2°C
Annual rain
536mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
23mm/an
PET
1 919mm
AET
451mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
207cm
Forest
58%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)