HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080255460
Bassin de Rio Gurupi
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 : Cachoeira do Piriá, Centro Novo do Maranhão, Centro do Guilherme, Nova Esperança do Piriá, Paragominas +1
Sub-basin area
1 473,9km²
Upstream area
30 710,6km²
Discharge
424,62m³/s
Mean elev.
69m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Coraci1718 km²
- Bassin de Rio Gurupi65 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 755.3 km²51.5% of basin
- 472.4 km²32.2% of basin
- 232.0 km²15.8% of basin
- 5.4 km²0.4% of basin
- 1.7 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Alto Rio Guamá
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
196.96 km² overlap
Alto Turiaçu
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
48.30 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
19 distinct species · 21 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°
26,5°C
Annual rain
2 210mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,24
Runoff
885mm/an
PET
1 668mm
AET
1 352mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
46cm
Forest
75%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
17%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)