HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080508390
Bassin de Rio Itapicuru
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 4 administrative regions : Araci, Cansanção, Quijingue, Santaluz
Sub-basin area
339,5km²
Upstream area
20 396,8km²
Discharge
8,77m³/s
Mean elev.
320m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Cariacá1706 km²
- Bassin de Rio Itapicuru157 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 193.8 km²57.3% of basin
- 98.2 km²29.0% of basin
- 46.0 km²13.6% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
32 distinct species · 53 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°
23,7°C
Annual rain
563mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,67
Runoff
20mm/an
PET
1 727mm
AET
475mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
542cm
Forest
3%
Crops
16%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)