“…These integrated riverplanning (Mike Basin) and broad GIS (ArcMap) computer packages have been widely used for the simulation of hydrological processes and appraisal of environmental phenomena at the catchment scale, especially in the most recent years following the massification of GIS application in scientific research (e.g. Pacheco, 2013, 2014; Pacheco and Weijden, 2012aWeijden, , 2012bWeijden, , 2014aWeijden, , 2014bPacheco et al, , 2014Pacheco et al, , 2015Sanches Fernandes et al, 2010, 2013Valle Junior et al, 2014a. In the study area, Mike Basin has previously been used with daily discharge rates to estimate river flow components within the period 1978-2006, namely the overland flow, inter and base flows (main results available in Santos et al, 2014).…”