HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080484570
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 4 administrative regions : Itaguaçu da Bahia, Pilão Arcado, Sento Sé, Xique-Xique
Sub-basin area
422,4km²
Upstream area
448 991,9km²
Discharge
2 804,01m³/s
Mean elev.
408m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Verde535 km²
- Bassin de Rio São Francisco77 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 265.8 km²63.2% of basin
- 105.6 km²25.1% of basin
- 37.4 km²8.9% of basin
- 11.9 km²2.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
69.94 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
19 distinct species · 22 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 2 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Rio São Francisco : 2 espèces reliées par 1 interaction GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 100.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,2°C
Annual rain
636mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,68
Runoff
48mm/an
PET
1 986mm
AET
536mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
50cm
Forest
12%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
16%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)