HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080578500
Bassin de Riacho Santa Clara
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 : Jequié, Maracás
Sub-basin area
162,7km²
Upstream area
39 035,8km²
Discharge
48,53m³/s
Mean elev.
480m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Riacho do Gentil955 km²
- Bassin de Rio de Contas433 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 147.2 km²90.8% of basin
- 14.9 km²9.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 11 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°
22,0°C
Annual rain
628mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
64mm/an
PET
1 403mm
AET
533mm
Mean slope
11,3°
Water table
751cm
Forest
20%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)