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
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
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)