HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080496550
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 7 administrative regions : Campo Formoso, Jacobina, Miguel Calmon, Mirangaba, Ourolândia +2
Sub-basin area
1 310,2km²
Upstream area
5 067,6km²
Discharge
3,99m³/s
Mean elev.
626m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Salitre980 km²
- Bassin de Rio Salitre99 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 425.7 km²32.6% of basin
- 263.3 km²20.2% of basin
- 245.5 km²18.8% of basin
- 214.3 km²16.4% of basin
- 152.2 km²11.7% of basin
- 4.0 km²0.3% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
77 distinct species · 144 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°
22,7°C
Annual rain
448mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
22mm/an
PET
1 644mm
AET
378mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
116cm
Forest
2%
Crops
18%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)