HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080787370
Bassin de Rio Piquiri
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 : Laranjal, Marquinho, Nova Laranjeiras, Palmital
Sub-basin area
304,7km²
Upstream area
2 958,9km²
Discharge
79,65m³/s
Mean elev.
607m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Piquiri1907 km²
- Bassin de Rio do Cobre748 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 163.1 km²53.6% of basin
- 82.5 km²27.1% of basin
- 58.3 km²19.2% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
25 distinct species · 44 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°
18,7°C
Annual rain
1 702mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,14
Runoff
804mm/an
PET
1 462mm
AET
1 363mm
Mean slope
9,1°
Water table
308cm
Forest
2%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)