HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080008830
Bassin de Rio Turiaçu
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 : Bacuri, Turiaçu, Turilândia
Sub-basin area
267km²
Upstream area
13 344,3km²
Discharge
474,99m³/s
Mean elev.
16m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #60802489001289 km²
- Bassin de Rio Turiaçu299 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 152.0 km²57.2% of basin
- 111.1 km²41.8% of basin
- 2.7 km²1.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
265.83 km² overlap
Reentrancias Maranhenses
IUCN VWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
265.83 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
27,0°C
Annual rain
1 896mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,20
Runoff
1 104mm/an
PET
1 521mm
AET
1 094mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
45cm
Forest
66%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)