HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080604310
Bassin de Rio São Bento
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 5 administrative regions : Barra do Choça, Caatiba, Nova Canaã, Planalto, Poções
Sub-basin area
456,6km²
Upstream area
456,6km²
Discharge
1,75m³/s
Mean elev.
749m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 253.9 km²55.8% of basin
- 138.3 km²30.4% of basin
- 61.8 km²13.6% of basin
- 0.9 km²0.2% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
23 distinct species · 26 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°
20,4°C
Annual rain
811mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
121mm/an
PET
1 382mm
AET
685mm
Mean slope
10,3°
Water table
562cm
Forest
20%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)