HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080260000
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 6 administrative regions : Centro Novo do Maranhão, Centro do Guilherme, Maranhãozinho, Nova Olinda do Maranhão, Presidente Médici +1
Sub-basin area
949,5km²
Upstream area
949,5km²
Discharge
27,29m³/s
Mean elev.
80m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 386.9 km²40.9% of basin
- 386.8 km²40.9% of basin
- 109.9 km²11.6% of basin
- 61.5 km²6.5% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Alto Turiaçu
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
386.63 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 6 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 255mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,26
Runoff
928mm/an
PET
1 662mm
AET
1 338mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
45cm
Forest
45%
Crops
2%
Urban
1%
Protected
41%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)