HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080509520
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 2 administrative regions : Araci, Tucano
Sub-basin area
52,2km²
Upstream area
24 240,8km²
Discharge
10,8m³/s
Mean elev.
178m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Carnaíba1948 km²
- Bassin de Rio Itapicuru482 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 46.6 km²89.7% of basin
- 5.4 km²10.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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°
24,8°C
Annual rain
716mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,61
Runoff
23mm/an
PET
1 813mm
AET
604mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
234cm
Forest
0%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)