HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080323460
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, Caxias
Sub-basin area
131,5km²
Upstream area
34 825km²
Discharge
120,94m³/s
Mean elev.
81m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Itapecuru472 km²
- Bassin de Rio Itapecuru154 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 72.7 km²55.5% of basin
- 58.2 km²44.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
14 distinct species · 20 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 426mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
304mm/an
PET
1 839mm
AET
1 029mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
81cm
Forest
5%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)