HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080007540
Bassin de Rio Maruaru
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 1 administrative regions : Curralinho
Sub-basin area
280km²
Upstream area
280km²
Discharge
11,4m³/s
Mean elev.
15m
Administrative coverage
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 278.8 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
260.19 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
14 distinct species · 25 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°
26,9°C
Annual rain
2 546mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,31
Runoff
1 252mm/an
PET
1 748mm
AET
1 438mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
13cm
Forest
98%
Crops
8%
Urban
1%
Protected
93%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)