HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080569730
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 4 administrative regions : Caetité, Igaporã, Riacho de Santana, Tanque Novo
Sub-basin area
516,9km²
Upstream area
1 363,2km²
Discharge
6,8m³/s
Mean elev.
884m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Córrego da Vereda453 km²
- Bassin de Rio Santo Onofre394 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 216.7 km²42.1% of basin
- 164.9 km²32.0% of basin
- 115.6 km²22.4% of basin
- 17.8 km²3.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
142 distinct species · 254 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°
21,7°C
Annual rain
788mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,52
Runoff
196mm/an
PET
1 638mm
AET
666mm
Mean slope
4,6°
Water table
433cm
Forest
39%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)