HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080239950
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 6 administrative regions : Amapá do Maranhão, Carutapera, Cândido Mendes, Godofredo Viana, Junco do Maranhão +1
Sub-basin area
401km²
Upstream area
401km²
Discharge
17,27m³/s
Mean elev.
43m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 143.9 km²36.0% of basin
- 126.8 km²31.8% of basin
- 120.6 km²30.2% of basin
- 5.6 km²1.4% of basin
- 2.3 km²0.6% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
76.39 km² overlap
Reentrancias Maranhenses
IUCN VWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
75.42 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 9 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°
26,6°C
Annual rain
2 516mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,37
Runoff
1 353mm/an
PET
1 575mm
AET
1 258mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
37cm
Forest
47%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
19%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)