HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080510650
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 5 administrative regions : Cipó, Nova Soure, Ribeira do Amparo, Ribeira do Pombal, Tucano
Sub-basin area
849,4km²
Upstream area
28 160,5km²
Discharge
12,22m³/s
Mean elev.
250m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lameirinho936 km²
- Bassin de Rio Itapicuru4 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 685.3 km²81.0% of basin
- 114.6 km²13.5% of basin
- 44.6 km²5.3% of basin
- 0.8 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.7 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
360 distinct species · 1 074 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 13 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Rio Itapicuru : 11 espèces reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 15.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,1°C
Annual rain
778mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
35mm/an
PET
1 748mm
AET
657mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
619cm
Forest
1%
Crops
12%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)