HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080670940
Bassin de Rio Piracanjuba
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 : Buriti Alegre, Morrinhos, Rio Quente, Água Limpa
Sub-basin area
273,1km²
Upstream area
3 276km²
Discharge
38,5m³/s
Mean elev.
626m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Piracanjuba447 km²
- Bassin · #6080667330172 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Água LimpaGoiás · Brazil175.5 km²64.5% of basin
- MorrinhosGoiás · Brazil96.4 km²35.4% of basin
- Buriti AlegreGoiás · Brazil0.3 km²0.1% of basin
- Rio QuenteGoiás · Brazil0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 9 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
1 286mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,28
Runoff
327mm/an
PET
1 778mm
AET
1 085mm
Mean slope
4,9°
Water table
233cm
Forest
1%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)