HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080578850
Bassin de Rio Carnaiba
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 : Malhada, Palmas de Monte Alto, Riacho de Santana
Sub-basin area
142km²
Upstream area
5 519,2km²
Discharge
29,09m³/s
Mean elev.
454m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080580920377 km²
- Bassin de Rio Carnaiba148 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 105.1 km²74.3% of basin
- 34.1 km²24.1% of basin
- 2.3 km²1.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 7 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°
24,5°C
Annual rain
775mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,57
Runoff
168mm/an
PET
1 789mm
AET
654mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
44cm
Forest
1%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)