HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080283130
Bassin de Rio Itapecuru
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 : Itapecuru Mirim, Miranda do Norte, Santa Rita
Sub-basin area
687,6km²
Upstream area
51 701,1km²
Discharge
389,84m³/s
Mean elev.
35m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Itapecuru137 km²
- Bassin de Rio Itapecuru17 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 612.0 km²89.4% of basin
- 47.1 km²6.9% of basin
- 25.5 km²3.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
7.45 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
299 distinct species · 2 840 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Rio Itapecuru : 19 espèces reliées par 36 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,2°C
Annual rain
1 652mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
953mm/an
PET
1 700mm
AET
1 101mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
31cm
Forest
22%
Crops
9%
Urban
2%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)