HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080221500
Bassin de Rio Maicuru
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 2 administrative regions : Almeirim, Monte Alegre
Sub-basin area
532,4km²
Upstream area
532,5km²
Discharge
8,13m³/s
Mean elev.
421m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 527.6 km²99.5% of basin
- 2.4 km²0.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Floresta Estadual Do Paru
IUCN VIForest
530.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 16 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°
25,2°C
Annual rain
1 847mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,13
Runoff
492mm/an
PET
1 614mm
AET
1 283mm
Mean slope
8,8°
Water table
225cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)