HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080457270
Bassin de Riacho Algodão
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 : Casa Nova
Sub-basin area
711,7km²
Upstream area
711,7km²
Discharge
0,58m³/s
Mean elev.
479m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
163.40 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
64 distinct species · 104 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°
25,4°C
Annual rain
526mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
26mm/an
PET
1 942mm
AET
443mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
151cm
Forest
58%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
23%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)