HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080255470
Bassin · #6080255470
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 3 administrative regions : Centro Novo do Maranhão, Centro do Guilherme, Maracaçumé
Sub-basin area
469,6km²
Upstream area
469,6km²
Discharge
12,65m³/s
Mean elev.
61m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 460.2 km²98.4% of basin
- 7.2 km²1.5% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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 284mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,27
Runoff
859mm/an
PET
1 657mm
AET
1 369mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
37cm
Forest
24%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)