HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080473070
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 2 administrative regions : Remanso, Sento Sé
Sub-basin area
11,9km²
Upstream area
483 039,3km²
Discharge
2 807,78m³/s
Mean elev.
386m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Riacho da Jibóia1790 km²
- Bassin de Rio São Francisco325 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 6.4 km²54.3% of basin
- 5.4 km²45.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
11.80 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 7 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°
26,9°C
Annual rain
608mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,67
Runoff
34mm/an
PET
1 836mm
AET
512mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
7cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)