HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080292460
Bassin de Rio Acaraú
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 : Massapê, Meruoca, Sobral
Sub-basin area
188,8km²
Upstream area
12 100,4km²
Discharge
54,91m³/s
Mean elev.
181m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,8°C
Annual rain
954mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
264mm/an
PET
1 868mm
AET
749mm
Mean slope
4,0°
Water table
137cm
Forest
62%
Crops
19%
Urban
5%
Protected
15%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)