River
Itapecuru River
897 km from source to mouth · Brazil.
BrazilFlows into Baía de São José
In numbers
Length
897km
Average flow
470m³/s
Basin
46,500km²
Drop
379m
from 374 m to -5 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
897 km of river and 11 stops on the way: 9 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 374 m
- 249 kmAlpercatas Rivertributary
- 255 kmColinas41,312 people
- 483 kmCaxias163,546 people
- 577 kmCodó114,275 people
- 607 kmTimbiras29,183 people
- 645 kmCoroatá65,544 people
- 709 kmPirapemas17,714 people
- 735 kmCantanhede22,117 people
- 770 kmItapecuru Mirim68,723 people
- 845 kmRosário42,994 people
- 864 kmMunim Rivertributary
- 897 kmBaía de São Joséat -5 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Maranhão, Brazil
At the mouth it carries 470 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 5.3 seconds. It drops from 374 m to -5 m, 0.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 46,500 km², about the size of BT. 1.0 million people live in it. Highest water: from March to April; lowest: from August to November. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- CaxiasLargest city on its banks · 163,546 people
- Senador Petrônio Portela Airport (THE)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 63 km from the cityCar hire at THE airport (Teresina)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water8 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to JulyThe best months to visit
Itapecuru River, month by month
Highest water: from March to April
Lowest water: from August to November. Best months to visit: from June to July.
From about 190 m³/s in the lowest month to 970 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
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The basin
Itapecuru River: the basin in numbers
52,991 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.0millionpeople live in the basin
- 19/km²people per km²
- 207maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,399mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 26.6°Caverage air temperature
- 2%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 45% Forest
- 8% Cropland
- 13% Pasture
- 1% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Itapecuru River: what you find on the way
- 8Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Itapecuru River in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
1island off the mouthIslandyas
Islands off the mouth (1)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- São Luís Island25 km away1,410km²
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From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Itapecuru River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (11)
Also: Alpercatas River, Munim River, Codòzinho River, Itapecuruzinho River, Peritoró River, Pirapemas River, Gameleira River, Correntes River, Bôca do Mato River, Rio Pucumã, Rio Santo Amaro
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q3041714) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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