HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080458100
Bassin de Rio Uruçuí Preto
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 5 administrative regions : Baixa Grande do Ribeiro, Bom Jesus, Gilbués, Monte Alegre do Piauí, Santa Filomena
Sub-basin area
945,8km²
Upstream area
945,8km²
Discharge
6,09m³/s
Mean elev.
562m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 714.7 km²75.9% of basin
- 132.2 km²14.0% of basin
- 63.7 km²6.8% of basin
- 24.0 km²2.5% of basin
- 7.4 km²0.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
315.32 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 12 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
1 098mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
209mm/an
PET
1 860mm
AET
928mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
173cm
Forest
46%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)