HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080468290
Bassin de Rio Gurguéia
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 : Monte Alegre do Piauí, Redenção do Gurguéia, Riacho Frio
Sub-basin area
201km²
Upstream area
4 534,9km²
Discharge
22,07m³/s
Mean elev.
370m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Brejo dos Paus533 km²
- Bassin de Riacho Vermelho112 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 141.0 km²70.4% of basin
- 40.3 km²20.1% of basin
- 18.9 km²9.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 15 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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
1 127mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
178mm/an
PET
1 927mm
AET
954mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
235cm
Forest
47%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)