HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080554680
Bassin de Rio Santo Onofre
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 : Bom Jesus da Lapa, Boquira, Botuporã, Macaúbas, Paratinga +2
Sub-basin area
1 714,6km²
Upstream area
3 728,3km²
Discharge
21,94m³/s
Mean elev.
800m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Riacho da Rapadura650 km²
- Bassin de Rio Santo Onofre517 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1061.9 km²62.2% of basin
- 337.3 km²19.7% of basin
- 140.8 km²8.2% of basin
- 73.7 km²4.3% of basin
- 55.1 km²3.2% of basin
- 39.2 km²2.3% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
136 distinct species · 201 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°
22,8°C
Annual rain
823mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
229mm/an
PET
1 741mm
AET
695mm
Mean slope
6,4°
Water table
482cm
Forest
71%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)