HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080492540
Bassin de Rio Salitre
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 : Campo Formoso, Mirangaba, Umburanas
Sub-basin area
590,1km²
Upstream area
8 826,7km²
Discharge
5,7m³/s
Mean elev.
613m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Morim1328 km²
- Bassin de Rio Salitre32 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 564.8 km²96.1% of basin
- 22.8 km²3.9% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
21 distinct species · 28 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°
22,8°C
Annual rain
428mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,74
Runoff
15mm/an
PET
1 674mm
AET
360mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
189cm
Forest
1%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)