HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080514930
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 3 administrative regions : Itapicuru, Nova Soure, Olindina
Sub-basin area
91,9km²
Upstream area
32 669,5km²
Discharge
17,81m³/s
Mean elev.
163m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Natuba1114 km²
- Bassin de Riacho do Ingá450 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 46.7 km²51.1% of basin
- 44.7 km²48.8% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 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°
24,2°C
Annual rain
752mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
73mm/an
PET
1 657mm
AET
635mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
371cm
Forest
1%
Crops
17%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)