HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080631960
Bassin de Rio Piranhas
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 : Arenópolis, Caiapônia, Piranhas
Sub-basin area
428,9km²
Upstream area
428,9km²
Discharge
7,71m³/s
Mean elev.
464m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- PiranhasGoiás · Brazil320.2 km²74.9% of basin
- ArenópolisGoiás · Brazil106.6 km²24.9% of basin
- 0.7 km²0.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
23 distinct species · 57 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°
25,0°C
Annual rain
1 616mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,07
Runoff
566mm/an
PET
1 740mm
AET
1 162mm
Mean slope
3,2°
Water table
227cm
Forest
4%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)