HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080295400
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
58,8km²
Upstream area
46 297,8km²
Discharge
264,96m³/s
Mean elev.
36m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Itapecuru1539 km²
- Bassin de Rio Itapecuru690 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 38.4 km²65.7% of basin
- 20.1 km²34.3% 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 835mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
868mm/an
PET
1 738mm
AET
1 130mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
46cm
Forest
3%
Crops
23%
Urban
9%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)