HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080281100
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 2 administrative regions : Centro Novo do Maranhão, Paragominas
Sub-basin area
168km²
Upstream area
17 473,7km²
Discharge
202,57m³/s
Mean elev.
93m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Gurupi643 km²
- Bassin de Rio Gurupi459 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 115.2 km²68.8% of basin
- 52.1 km²31.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Reserva Biológica Do Gurupi
IUCN IaBiological Reserve
51.95 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°
26,6°C
Annual rain
1 756mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,01
Runoff
471mm/an
PET
1 738mm
AET
1 171mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
89cm
Forest
57%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
31%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)