HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080492530
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
334,9km²
Upstream area
436 621,3km²
Discharge
2 818,72m³/s
Mean elev.
432m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 196.6 km²59.0% of basin
- 136.9 km²41.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
86.81 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
25.27 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
23 distinct species · 23 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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
661mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,67
Runoff
45mm/an
PET
1 990mm
AET
557mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
130cm
Forest
29%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
34%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)