HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080350940
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 : Buriti Bravo, Fortuna, Governador Luiz Rocha
Sub-basin area
222,6km²
Upstream area
17 670,7km²
Discharge
103,08m³/s
Mean elev.
168m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Itapecuru315 km²
- Bassin de Rio Itapecuru5 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 159.0 km²71.8% of basin
- 61.3 km²27.7% of basin
- 1.3 km²0.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 9 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°
26,9°C
Annual rain
1 170mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
166mm/an
PET
1 815mm
AET
953mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
172cm
Forest
88%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)