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
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
- Bassin de Rio Parnaíba908 km²
- Bassin · #6080376450348 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 125.8 km²68.3% of basin
- 58.4 km²31.7% of basin
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.
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)