HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080349120
Bassin · #6080349120
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, Arame, Grajaú
Sub-basin area
212,8km²
Upstream area
212,8km²
Discharge
2,97m³/s
Mean elev.
245m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 183.5 km²86.6% of basin
- 27.0 km²12.8% of basin
- 1.4 km²0.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Arariboia
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
35.78 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
1 156mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
425mm/an
PET
1 859mm
AET
976mm
Mean slope
4,3°
Water table
252cm
Forest
86%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
17%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)