HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080351830
Bassin · #6080351830
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, Buritirana, Montes Altos
Sub-basin area
435,7km²
Upstream area
435,9km²
Discharge
4,8m³/s
Mean elev.
290m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 256.9 km²59.2% of basin
- 145.6 km²33.6% of basin
- 31.4 km²7.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Krikati
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
293.73 km² overlap
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°
25,2°C
Annual rain
1 357mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,27
Runoff
490mm/an
PET
1 853mm
AET
1 104mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
179cm
Forest
20%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
68%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)