HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080546920
Bassin de Riacho da Cabeceira
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 4 administrative regions : Brejolândia, Muquém do São Francisco, Tabocas do Brejo Velho, Wanderley
Sub-basin area
407,2km²
Upstream area
407,4km²
Discharge
2,63m³/s
Mean elev.
722m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 393.3 km²96.9% of basin
- 11.7 km²2.9% of basin
- 0.7 km²0.2% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 23 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°
23,5°C
Annual rain
890mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,52
Runoff
204mm/an
PET
1 864mm
AET
751mm
Mean slope
3,3°
Water table
309cm
Forest
59%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)