HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080285720
Bassin de Rio Pindaré
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 10 administrative regions : Bela Vista do Maranhão, Bom Jardim, Cajari, Governador Newton Bello, Igarapé do Meio +5
Sub-basin area
2 412,9km²
Upstream area
37 661,8km²
Discharge
320,81m³/s
Mean elev.
22m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Pindaré2668 km²
- Bassin de Rio Pindaré36 km²
10 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1112.3 km²46.3% of basin
- 280.4 km²11.7% of basin
- 228.2 km²9.5% of basin
- 218.9 km²9.1% of basin
- 216.0 km²9.0% of basin
- 173.1 km²7.2% of basin
- 148.0 km²6.2% of basin
- 14.4 km²0.6% of basin
2 moreFull L2 list
- Igarapé do Meio6.2 km² · 0.3%
- Vitória do Mearim4.6 km² · 0.2%
3 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
1259.72 km² overlap
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
1258.04 km² overlap
Rio Pindaré
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
88.94 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
697 distinct species · 1 830 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Pindaré : 26 espèces reliées par 24 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 5.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
27,3°C
Annual rain
1 836mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
610mm/an
PET
1 744mm
AET
1 149mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
23cm
Forest
52%
Crops
6%
Urban
2%
Protected
54%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)