HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080441330
Bassin de Rio São Francisco
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 : Curaçá, Orocó, Santa Maria da Boa Vista
Sub-basin area
1 132,6km²
Upstream area
542 772,7km²
Discharge
2 364,55m³/s
Mean elev.
390m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio São Francisco2189 km²
- Bassin de Rio São Francisco933 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 830.4 km²73.6% of basin
- 254.6 km²22.6% of basin
- 43.0 km²3.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Wildlife Refuge
2.13 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
85 distinct species · 123 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°
24,8°C
Annual rain
477mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
145mm/an
PET
1 794mm
AET
401mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
130cm
Forest
32%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)