HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080585380
Bassin de Rio Maranhão
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 : Niquelândia, Uruaçu
Sub-basin area
112,9km²
Upstream area
37 318,1km²
Discharge
621,65m³/s
Mean elev.
472m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Maranhão1148 km²
- Bassin de Rio do Peixe620 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- NiquelândiaGoiás · Brazil57.5 km²51.2% of basin
- 54.9 km²48.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 8 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°
25,3°C
Annual rain
1 743mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
644mm/an
PET
1 664mm
AET
1 176mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
146cm
Forest
8%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)