HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080507440
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 2 administrative regions : Cristalândia do Piauí, Formosa do Rio Preto
Sub-basin area
515,9km²
Upstream area
515,9km²
Discharge
2,88m³/s
Mean elev.
674m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 506.3 km²98.5% of basin
- 7.5 km²1.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
497.55 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
23,6°C
Annual rain
1 028mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,46
Runoff
217mm/an
PET
1 916mm
AET
868mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
289cm
Forest
64%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
97%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)