HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080293000
Bassin de Igarapé do Ipixuna
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 5 administrative regions : Conceição do Lago-Açu, Igarapé do Meio, Monção, Pio XII, Vitória do Mearim
Sub-basin area
593km²
Upstream area
21 767,1km²
Discharge
335,5m³/s
Mean elev.
16m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Igarapé da Cigana712 km²
- Bassin de Igarapé Boa União319 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 234.8 km²39.8% of basin
- 222.5 km²37.7% of basin
- 96.4 km²16.3% of basin
- 34.9 km²5.9% of basin
- 1.7 km²0.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
590.36 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
590.36 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
14 distinct species · 16 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°
27,4°C
Annual rain
1 694mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
631mm/an
PET
1 747mm
AET
1 113mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
16cm
Forest
33%
Crops
4%
Urban
1%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)