HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080279190
Bassin de Rio Preguiças
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 4 administrative regions : Anapurus, Barreirinhas, Santa Quitéria do Maranhão, Urbano Santos
Sub-basin area
808,3km²
Upstream area
808,3km²
Discharge
21,96m³/s
Mean elev.
86m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 411.5 km²51.1% of basin
- 353.2 km²43.9% of basin
- 26.1 km²3.2% of basin
- 13.8 km²1.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
219.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
36 distinct species · 46 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
1 620mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,05
Runoff
853mm/an
PET
1 710mm
AET
1 047mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
99cm
Forest
25%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
27%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)