HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080294490
Bassin de Rio Curu
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 : Pentecoste, São Luís do Curu, Umirim
Sub-basin area
46,7km²
Upstream area
7 368,6km²
Discharge
8,66m³/s
Mean elev.
51m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Caxitoré1280 km²
- Bassin de Rio Curu34 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 24.4 km²52.5% of basin
- 13.7 km²29.4% of basin
- 8.4 km²18.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 10 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°
26,5°C
Annual rain
897mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
196mm/an
PET
1 602mm
AET
747mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
97cm
Forest
78%
Crops
11%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)