Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080372330

Bassin de Rio Parnaíba

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 : Amarante, São Francisco do Maranhão

Pfafstetter: 63250010

Sub-basin area

185km²

Upstream area

152 536,1km²

Discharge

628,76m³/s

Mean elev.

182m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

Drains into

Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

9 distinct species · 13 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

13 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 10
10–9
10–9
10–9
< 10

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

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 277mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,30

Runoff

307mm/an

PET

1 838mm

AET

985mm

Mean slope

4,6°

Water table

393cm

Forest

14%

Crops

9%

Urban

1%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)