HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080327720
Bassin · #6080327720
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 : Amarante do Maranhão, Buriticupu, Santa Luzia
Sub-basin area
552,5km²
Upstream area
552,7km²
Discharge
5,33m³/s
Mean elev.
307m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 377.8 km²68.7% of basin
- 123.2 km²22.4% of basin
- 49.1 km²8.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Arariboia
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
500.57 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
25,6°C
Annual rain
1 262mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,30
Runoff
317mm/an
PET
1 792mm
AET
1 000mm
Mean slope
5,6°
Water table
389cm
Forest
95%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
91%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)