HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080239740
Bassin de Rio Maracaçumé
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 : Cândido Mendes, Godofredo Viana
Sub-basin area
13,8km²
Upstream area
5 221,2km²
Discharge
192,97m³/s
Mean elev.
20m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Maracaçumé810 km²
- Bassin de Rio Maracaçumé401 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 10.1 km²73.7% of basin
- 3.6 km²26.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
13.76 km² overlap
Reentrancias Maranhenses
IUCN VWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
13.76 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
2 849mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,45
Runoff
1 348mm/an
PET
1 553mm
AET
1 247mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
32cm
Forest
46%
Crops
56%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)