HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080354690
Bassin · #6080354690
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 1 administrative regions : Amarante do Maranhão
Sub-basin area
611,2km²
Upstream area
611,2km²
Discharge
6,95m³/s
Mean elev.
234m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 608.5 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Governador
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
166.60 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 20 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°
25,7°C
Annual rain
1 275mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
391mm/an
PET
1 876mm
AET
1 044mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
189cm
Forest
26%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
27%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)