HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080562020
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 2 administrative regions : Bom Jesus da Lapa, Sítio do Mato
Sub-basin area
69km²
Upstream area
272 102,7km²
Discharge
2 182,71m³/s
Mean elev.
431m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio São Francisco378 km²
- Bassin de Rio São Francisco172 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 67.3 km²97.9% of basin
- 1.4 km²2.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 7 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°
25,5°C
Annual rain
842mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
235mm/an
PET
1 888mm
AET
711mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
21cm
Forest
18%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)