HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080494690
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 : Barra, Pilão Arcado, Xique-Xique
Sub-basin area
84,6km²
Upstream area
435 913km²
Discharge
2 820,11m³/s
Mean elev.
414m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080496960359 km²
- Bassin de Rio São Francisco12 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 44.2 km²52.4% of basin
- 36.4 km²43.1% of basin
- 3.7 km²4.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
72.81 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
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,9°C
Annual rain
662mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,67
Runoff
49mm/an
PET
1 991mm
AET
559mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
169cm
Forest
17%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
87%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)