HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080482860
Bassin de Riacho da Cruz
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 : Avelino Lopes, Curimatá, Morro Cabeça no Tempo
Sub-basin area
1 448km²
Upstream area
3 926,7km²
Discharge
5,67m³/s
Mean elev.
444m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Vereda da União951 km²
- Bassin de Baixão dos Tobos508 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 845.0 km²58.6% of basin
- 354.5 km²24.6% of basin
- 242.6 km²16.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Parque Estadual Do Rangel
IUCN IIPark
6.92 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
11 distinct species · 14 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
904mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,54
Runoff
66mm/an
PET
1 955mm
AET
764mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
274cm
Forest
80%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)