HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080313440
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 3 administrative regions : Codó, Coroatá, Timbiras
Sub-basin area
131,7km²
Upstream area
42 960,8km²
Discharge
192,58m³/s
Mean elev.
74m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Itapecuru373 km²
- Bassin de Rio Codozinho102 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 113.1 km²86.2% of basin
- 18.0 km²13.7% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
17 distinct species · 24 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 517mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,16
Runoff
344mm/an
PET
1 800mm
AET
1 067mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
82cm
Forest
36%
Crops
24%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)