HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080466410
Bassin de Rio Parnaíba
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 4 administrative regions : Alto Parnaíba, Barreiras do Piauí, Gilbués, Santa Filomena
Sub-basin area
701,3km²
Upstream area
2 950,1km²
Discharge
26,21m³/s
Mean elev.
432m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Parnaíba401 km²
- Bassin de Brejo da Estiva181 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 439.0 km²62.9% of basin
- 189.1 km²27.1% of basin
- 70.3 km²10.1% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Park
697.89 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 13 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
1 293mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
283mm/an
PET
1 897mm
AET
1 072mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
236cm
Forest
8%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)