HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080244620
Bassin de Rio Curiuaú
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 : Novo Airão, Presidente Figueiredo
Sub-basin area
1 270,3km²
Upstream area
1 270,3km²
Discharge
47,77m³/s
Mean elev.
73m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1030.0 km²81.4% of basin
- 234.7 km²18.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Waimiri-Atroari
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
917.68 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
69 distinct species · 93 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°
27,1°C
Annual rain
2 551mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,35
Runoff
1 207mm/an
PET
1 659mm
AET
1 520mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
32cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
73%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)