HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080259820
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 2 administrative regions : Centro Novo do Maranhão, Centro do Guilherme
Sub-basin area
554,8km²
Upstream area
555km²
Discharge
15,04m³/s
Mean elev.
79m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 548.9 km²99.4% of basin
- 3.4 km²0.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Alto Turiaçu
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
159.25 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 4 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 283mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,27
Runoff
867mm/an
PET
1 656mm
AET
1 359mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
50cm
Forest
44%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
29%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)