HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080621100
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 3 administrative regions : Januária, Pedras de Maria da Cruz, São Francisco
Sub-basin area
538,2km²
Upstream area
188 335,7km²
Discharge
2 056,67m³/s
Mean elev.
507m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio São Francisco2288 km²
- Bassin de Rio Pardo2264 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 374.8 km²69.9% of basin
- 118.2 km²22.0% of basin
- 43.3 km²8.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
1.48 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
15 distinct species · 19 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°
23,8°C
Annual rain
886mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
283mm/an
PET
1 888mm
AET
747mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
83cm
Forest
3%
Crops
17%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)