HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080365520
Bassin de Rio Alpercatas
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 6 administrative regions : Colinas, Fernando Falcão, Jatobá, Mirador, São Domingos do Maranhão +1
Sub-basin area
1 367,9km²
Upstream area
6 953,4km²
Discharge
51,6m³/s
Mean elev.
247m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Alpercatas941 km²
- Bassin de Rio Alpercatas442 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 441.0 km²32.4% of basin
- 440.4 km²32.3% of basin
- 347.8 km²25.5% of basin
- 75.1 km²5.5% of basin
- 52.3 km²3.8% of basin
- 5.4 km²0.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
26 distinct species · 32 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
1 283mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
166mm/an
PET
1 797mm
AET
1 027mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
191cm
Forest
56%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)