HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080508160
Bassin de Rio Preto
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 : Cristalândia do Piauí, Formosa do Rio Preto, Santa Rita de Cássia
Sub-basin area
557km²
Upstream area
557,3km²
Discharge
2m³/s
Mean elev.
594m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 542.0 km²97.7% of basin
- 12.0 km²2.2% of basin
- 0.8 km²0.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
389.40 km² overlap
Ecological Station
30.84 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
151 distinct species · 280 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°
23,9°C
Annual rain
973mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,50
Runoff
158mm/an
PET
1 959mm
AET
822mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
259cm
Forest
52%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
70%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)