HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080472770
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 : Casa Nova, Remanso, Sento Sé
Sub-basin area
152,5km²
Upstream area
486 228km²
Discharge
2 764,44m³/s
Mean elev.
385m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Riacho do Algodão895 km²
- Bassin de Rio São Francisco447 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 95.3 km²62.6% of basin
- 48.0 km²31.6% of basin
- 8.6 km²5.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
152.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 11 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°
26,5°C
Annual rain
562mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,70
Runoff
28mm/an
PET
1 903mm
AET
473mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
6cm
Forest
20%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)