HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080240160
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, Cândido Mendes, Godofredo Viana, Governador Nunes Freire, Junco do Maranhão +1
Sub-basin area
810,2km²
Upstream area
4 806,2km²
Discharge
174,99m³/s
Mean elev.
43m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Maracaçumé1947 km²
- Bassin de Rio Maracaçumé546 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 318.2 km²39.5% of basin
- 299.4 km²37.1% of basin
- 69.0 km²8.6% of basin
- 65.7 km²8.1% of basin
- 54.3 km²6.7% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
21.02 km² overlap
Reentrancias Maranhenses
IUCN VWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
20.67 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 10 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 593mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,39
Runoff
1 337mm/an
PET
1 573mm
AET
1 290mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
34cm
Forest
52%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)