HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080351190
Bassin de Rio Grajaú
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 : Amarante do Maranhão, Grajaú
Sub-basin area
223,2km²
Upstream area
8 544,7km²
Discharge
122,48m³/s
Mean elev.
215m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Grajaú1222 km²
- Bassin · #608035307014 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 149.4 km²67.2% of basin
- 72.9 km²32.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Arariboia
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
6.26 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
29 distinct species · 38 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°
26,0°C
Annual rain
1 180mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
421mm/an
PET
1 874mm
AET
994mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
243cm
Forest
63%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)