HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080580760
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 2 administrative regions : Palmas de Monte Alto, Riacho de Santana
Sub-basin area
148,1km²
Upstream area
5 000,1km²
Discharge
26,88m³/s
Mean elev.
463m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Carnaiba2235 km²
- Bassin de Rio Carnaíba de Dentro1216 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 90.6 km²61.4% of basin
- 57.0 km²38.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
12 distinct species · 16 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°
24,3°C
Annual rain
743mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
173mm/an
PET
1 767mm
AET
627mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
48cm
Forest
1%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)