HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080637680
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, Santa Fé de Minas, São Romão
Sub-basin area
179km²
Upstream area
152 366,5km²
Discharge
1 761,32m³/s
Mean elev.
505m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Paracatu670 km²
- Bassin de Rio São Francisco428 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 119.2 km²66.8% of basin
- 46.7 km²26.2% of basin
- 12.4 km²7.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
4.77 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 8 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 025mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
316mm/an
PET
1 873mm
AET
866mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
28cm
Forest
7%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)