HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080477980
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 : Belo Monte, Porto da Folha, Pão de Açúcar
Sub-basin area
59,6km²
Upstream area
618 393,1km²
Discharge
2 525,89m³/s
Mean elev.
86m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Campos Novos562 km²
- Bassin de Rio Jacaré385 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 35.2 km²59.3% of basin
- 23.8 km²40.1% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
25,5°C
Annual rain
557mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
160mm/an
PET
1 590mm
AET
470mm
Mean slope
4,3°
Water table
389cm
Forest
13%
Crops
19%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)