HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080010100
Bassin de Rio Acaraú
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 8 administrative regions : Acaraú, Bela Cruz, Cruz, Marco, Massapê +3
Sub-basin area
1 395,3km²
Upstream area
14 578,8km²
Discharge
69,02m³/s
Mean elev.
63m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,5°C
Annual rain
1 042mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
371mm/an
PET
1 874mm
AET
831mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
110cm
Forest
63%
Crops
25%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)