HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080587130
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 4 administrative regions : Campinorte, Niquelândia, Nova Iguaçu de Goiás, Uruaçu
Sub-basin area
1 148,4km²
Upstream area
36 585,5km²
Discharge
607,14m³/s
Mean elev.
517m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Maranhão632 km²
- Bassin de Rio Maranhão137 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 472.0 km²41.3% of basin
- NiquelândiaGoiás · Brazil397.9 km²34.8% of basin
- CampinorteGoiás · Brazil272.9 km²23.8% of basin
- Nova Iguaçu de GoiásGoiás · Brazil1.4 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
509 distinct species · 1 268 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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
1 682mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,02
Runoff
627mm/an
PET
1 647mm
AET
1 150mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
143cm
Forest
4%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)