HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080636530
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 : Ponto Chique, São Romão, Ubaí
Sub-basin area
111,3km²
Upstream area
153 849,5km²
Discharge
1 769,4m³/s
Mean elev.
496m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Paracatu1371 km²
- Bassin de Rio São Francisco179 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 44.9 km²40.5% of basin
- 34.7 km²31.2% of basin
- 31.4 km²28.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
0.81 km² overlap
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°
23,3°C
Annual rain
1 041mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
310mm/an
PET
1 885mm
AET
879mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
87cm
Forest
8%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)