HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080488620
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 : Pilão Arcado, Xique-Xique
Sub-basin area
77km²
Upstream area
437 293,2km²
Discharge
2 804,33m³/s
Mean elev.
402m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080492420594 km²
- Bassin de Rio São Francisco335 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 43.6 km²56.8% of basin
- 33.1 km²43.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
1.36 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
641mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,68
Runoff
46mm/an
PET
2 006mm
AET
540mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
89cm
Forest
26%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)