HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080275790
Bassin · #6080275790
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 : Araguanã, Nova Olinda do Maranhão
Sub-basin area
128,9km²
Upstream area
2 859km²
Discharge
86,01m³/s
Mean elev.
51m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #60802757002121 km²
- Bassin · #6080275540609 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 123.6 km²96.3% of basin
- 4.7 km²3.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Alto Turiaçu
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
0.48 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°
26,9°C
Annual rain
2 101mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,20
Runoff
1 034mm/an
PET
1 688mm
AET
1 275mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
26cm
Forest
17%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)