HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080263880
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 3 administrative regions : Centro Novo do Maranhão, Nova Esperança do Piriá, Paragominas
Sub-basin area
64,8km²
Upstream area
27 518,6km²
Discharge
352,12m³/s
Mean elev.
64m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #60802653801032 km²
- Bassin de Rio Gurupi719 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 36.1 km²55.9% of basin
- 28.4 km²44.0% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Alto Turiaçu
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
28.40 km² overlap
Alto Rio Guamá
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
28.13 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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 143mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,21
Runoff
742mm/an
PET
1 683mm
AET
1 327mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
49cm
Forest
95%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
87%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)