HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080467880
Bassin de Riacho Melado
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 2 administrative regions : Redenção do Gurguéia, Riacho Frio
Sub-basin area
2,3km²
Upstream area
4 826,2km²
Discharge
23,71m³/s
Mean elev.
292m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Baixão Comprido289 km²
- Bassin de Rio Gurguéia201 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2.1 km²94.2% of basin
- 0.1 km²5.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
1 169mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
170mm/an
PET
1 944mm
AET
989mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
53cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)