HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080547930
Bassin de Rio Jenipapo
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 2 administrative regions : Cabaceiras do Paraguaçu, Castro Alves
Sub-basin area
155,3km²
Upstream area
155,3km²
Discharge
0,6m³/s
Mean elev.
179m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 104.6 km²67.6% of basin
- 50.1 km²32.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
22.25 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 35 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°
23,3°C
Annual rain
855mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
121mm/an
PET
1 347mm
AET
724mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
208cm
Forest
1%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)