HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080269710
Bassin de Rio Uraim
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, Paragominas
Sub-basin area
443,8km²
Upstream area
5 067,3km²
Discharge
81,72m³/s
Mean elev.
93m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Uraim1672 km²
- Bassin de Rio Uraim445 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 441.6 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Alto Rio Guamá
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
70.19 km² overlap
Alto Turiaçu
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
0.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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
1 968mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,13
Runoff
602mm/an
PET
1 711mm
AET
1 249mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
101cm
Forest
79%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
16%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)