HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080457080
Bassin de Riacho da Torre
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, Petrolina
Sub-basin area
830,3km²
Upstream area
2 302,6km²
Discharge
2,43m³/s
Mean elev.
446m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 821.9 km²99.4% of basin
- 4.0 km²0.5% of basin
- 1.0 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
264.91 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
76 distinct species · 114 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
503mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,74
Runoff
49mm/an
PET
1 933mm
AET
423mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
127cm
Forest
43%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
32%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)