HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080496860
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
12,4km²
Upstream area
435 469,8km²
Discharge
2 826,72m³/s
Mean elev.
428m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #6080496850893 km²
- Bassin de Rio São Francisco372 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 6.7 km²54.5% of basin
- 4.9 km²39.8% of basin
- 0.7 km²5.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
12.32 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°
25,8°C
Annual rain
666mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
51mm/an
PET
1 986mm
AET
562mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
373cm
Forest
42%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)