HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080297600
Bassin de Rio Peritoró
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 4 administrative regions : Alto Alegre do Maranhão, Coroatá, Pirapemas, São Mateus do Maranhão
Sub-basin area
694,4km²
Upstream area
2 002,9km²
Discharge
28,4m³/s
Mean elev.
51m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080310850369 km²
- Bassin · #608031095054 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 426.5 km²61.7% of basin
- 148.4 km²21.5% of basin
- 111.2 km²16.1% of basin
- 5.2 km²0.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
25 distinct species · 27 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 592mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
600mm/an
PET
1 764mm
AET
1 084mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
39cm
Forest
26%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)