HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080365330
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 2 administrative regions : Colinas, Mirador
Sub-basin area
111,7km²
Upstream area
15 014,5km²
Discharge
94,84m³/s
Mean elev.
239m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Alpercatas1368 km²
- Bassin de Rio Itapecuru59 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 59.7 km²53.7% of basin
- 51.5 km²46.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 7 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°
26,6°C
Annual rain
1 294mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,28
Runoff
146mm/an
PET
1 800mm
AET
1 030mm
Mean slope
5,1°
Water table
333cm
Forest
79%
Crops
10%
Urban
5%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)