HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080459200
Bassin de Riacho dos Matões
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 : Bom Jesus, Currais, Redenção do Gurguéia
Sub-basin area
984,1km²
Upstream area
984,5km²
Discharge
5,56m³/s
Mean elev.
508m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 975.7 km²99.6% of basin
- 4.2 km²0.4% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
36 distinct species · 69 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°
25,3°C
Annual rain
960mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
181mm/an
PET
1 862mm
AET
811mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
200cm
Forest
48%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)