HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080318360
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 : Aldeias Altas, Codó
Sub-basin area
386,1km²
Upstream area
35 453,7km²
Discharge
127,09m³/s
Mean elev.
80m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Itapecuru243 km²
- Bassin de Rio Itapecuru132 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 269.6 km²70.1% of basin
- 114.8 km²29.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 7 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°
27,4°C
Annual rain
1 467mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
315mm/an
PET
1 827mm
AET
1 052mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
79cm
Forest
16%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)