Water erosion is a major physical process responsible for soil degradation, particularly in semiarid areas, susceptible to high intensity rainfall and limited vegetation cover, especially during dry periods. This study aimed to experimentally evaluate the hydrossedimentological characteristics of Mimoso watershed, in the semiarid region of Pernambuco, in Pesqueira-PE. The representative Mimoso watershed presented high peak flows in a control section with intermittent hydrological regime. The suspended solid discharge production in the Mimoso Rivulet is high and the observed sediment concentrations was of 10.91 and 0.91 t ha-1 yr-1, for the years 2009 and 2010, respectively.
liquid discharge; sedimentology; solid discharge
