HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080548080
Bassin de Riacho Brejo Velho
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 : Brejolândia, Muquém do São Francisco, Serra Dourada
Sub-basin area
630,4km²
Upstream area
2 489,2km²
Discharge
17,89m³/s
Mean elev.
464m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Riacho Brejo Velho338 km²
- Bassin de Riacho Brejo Velho225 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 494.7 km²78.8% of basin
- 116.8 km²18.6% of basin
- 16.5 km²2.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
25 distinct species · 27 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°
25,2°C
Annual rain
816mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
231mm/an
PET
1 926mm
AET
688mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
36cm
Forest
34%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)