HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080250470
Bassin de Rio Turiaçu
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 4 administrative regions : Mirinzal, Pinheiro, Santa Helena, Serrano do Maranhão
Sub-basin area
719,4km²
Upstream area
719,7km²
Discharge
27,12m³/s
Mean elev.
37m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 407.3 km²56.9% of basin
- 152.1 km²21.2% of basin
- 105.5 km²14.7% of basin
- 51.3 km²7.2% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
487.86 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
487.06 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
229.13 km² overlap
Reentrancias Maranhenses
IUCN VWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
228.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 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°
26,9°C
Annual rain
1 772mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,12
Runoff
1 100mm/an
PET
1 549mm
AET
1 068mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
47cm
Forest
64%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)