HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080354450
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, Colinas, Fortuna
Sub-basin area
428,9km²
Upstream area
16 832,5km²
Discharge
99,73m³/s
Mean elev.
193m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Itapecuru756 km²
- Bassin de Rio Itapecuru273 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 296.3 km²69.4% of basin
- 130.4 km²30.5% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
89 distinct species · 330 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°
26,8°C
Annual rain
1 142mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
141mm/an
PET
1 809mm
AET
948mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
154cm
Forest
79%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)