HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080231040
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 1 administrative regions : Monte Alegre
Sub-basin area
516,5km²
Upstream area
516,6km²
Discharge
4,78m³/s
Mean elev.
343m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 514.2 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Floresta Estadual Do Paru
IUCN VIForest
219.37 km² overlap
Floresta Nacional De Mulata
IUCN VIForest
87.64 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
25,6°C
Annual rain
1 639mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,02
Runoff
433mm/an
PET
1 610mm
AET
1 201mm
Mean slope
5,3°
Water table
190cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
60%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)