HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080471420
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 4 administrative regions : Gilbués, Monte Alegre do Piauí, Riacho Frio, São Gonçalo do Gurguéia
Sub-basin area
853km²
Upstream area
2 516,1km²
Discharge
11,83m³/s
Mean elev.
422m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Gurguéia1331 km²
- Bassin de Riacho do Piripiri332 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 275.2 km²32.4% of basin
- 262.1 km²30.9% of basin
- 207.0 km²24.4% of basin
- 105.2 km²12.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
58.56 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 9 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
975mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,50
Runoff
159mm/an
PET
1 937mm
AET
823mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
224cm
Forest
20%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)