HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080449800
Bassin de Rio Cururu-Açu
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 : Apiacás, Jacareacanga
Sub-basin area
293km²
Upstream area
6 609,3km²
Discharge
285,53m³/s
Mean elev.
203m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Igarapé Arapari840 km²
- Bassin de Rio Cururu-Açu37 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 291.7 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 22 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°
25,8°C
Annual rain
2 341mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,20
Runoff
1 160mm/an
PET
1 869mm
AET
1 385mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
120cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)