HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080294210
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 : Cantanhede, Pirapemas
Sub-basin area
42,8km²
Upstream area
49 399,5km²
Discharge
316,12m³/s
Mean elev.
37m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Peritoró64 km²
- Bassin de Rio Itapecuru59 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 42.3 km²99.3% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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 825mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
896mm/an
PET
1 733mm
AET
1 129mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
46cm
Forest
34%
Crops
17%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)