HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080502280
Bassin de Rio Sassafrás
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 : Barreiras do Piauí, Formosa do Rio Preto, Mateiros
Sub-basin area
2 178,7km²
Upstream area
2 178,9km²
Discharge
20,88m³/s
Mean elev.
765m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1817.5 km²83.8% of basin
- 346.0 km²15.9% of basin
- 6.5 km²0.3% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
1180.93 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
271.68 km² overlap
Ecological Station
242.01 km² overlap
Park
5.54 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
95 distinct species · 268 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°
23,4°C
Annual rain
1 188mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
320mm/an
PET
1 854mm
AET
1 004mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
51cm
Forest
29%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
67%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)