HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080483710
Bassin de Rio Água Quente
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 : Alto Parnaíba, Barreiras do Piauí, Mateiros
Sub-basin area
524,5km²
Upstream area
524,5km²
Discharge
5,46m³/s
Mean elev.
631m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 267.0 km²51.1% of basin
- 235.6 km²45.1% of basin
- 19.8 km²3.8% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Park
332.03 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
121.94 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
101 distinct species · 169 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°
24,2°C
Annual rain
1 216mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
369mm/an
PET
1 869mm
AET
1 028mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
178cm
Forest
18%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
96%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)