HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080507060
Bassin de Rio Sapão
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 : Corrente, Cristalândia do Piauí, Formosa do Rio Preto
Sub-basin area
1 280,1km²
Upstream area
1 280,1km²
Discharge
9,62m³/s
Mean elev.
733m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1257.7 km²98.6% of basin
- 16.6 km²1.3% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
575.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
88 distinct species · 172 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 112mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
245mm/an
PET
1 884mm
AET
939mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
111cm
Forest
46%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
50%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)