HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080289570
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 2 administrative regions : Itapecuru Mirim, Miranda do Norte
Sub-basin area
16,8km²
Upstream area
50 875,9km²
Discharge
364,93m³/s
Mean elev.
26m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Igarapé Jundiai779 km²
- Bassin de Rio Itapecuru289 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 9.5 km²56.9% of basin
- 7.2 km²43.1% of basin
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°
27,3°C
Annual rain
1 678mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,02
Runoff
924mm/an
PET
1 716mm
AET
1 104mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
34cm
Forest
42%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)