HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080291160
Bassin · #6080291160
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 : Centro Novo do Maranhão, Governador Newton Bello, São João do Carú, Zé Doca
Sub-basin area
757,3km²
Upstream area
757,3km²
Discharge
15,44m³/s
Mean elev.
104m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 369.3 km²49.0% of basin
- 183.5 km²24.3% of basin
- 108.2 km²14.4% of basin
- 92.9 km²12.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Awa
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
299.70 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 4 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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
1 780mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
558mm/an
PET
1 734mm
AET
1 172mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
93cm
Forest
39%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
40%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)