HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080008990
Bassin · #6080008990
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 : Cedral, Cururupu, Porto Rico do Maranhão
Sub-basin area
350,7km²
Upstream area
350,8km²
Discharge
11,98m³/s
Mean elev.
16m
Administrative coverage
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 168.0 km²48.1% of basin
- 158.9 km²45.5% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
349.10 km² overlap
Reentrancias Maranhenses
IUCN VWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
349.10 km² overlap
Extractive Reserve
6.31 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 5 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 881mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,19
Runoff
1 008mm/an
PET
1 522mm
AET
1 050mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
25cm
Forest
73%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)