HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080657920
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 : Buritizeiro, Pirapora, Várzea da Palma
Sub-basin area
91,2km²
Upstream area
61 151,2km²
Discharge
789,02m³/s
Mean elev.
538m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio São Francisco790 km²
- Bassin de Rio São Francisco221 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 49.6 km²54.6% of basin
- 40.2 km²44.3% of basin
- 1.1 km²1.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
23,5°C
Annual rain
1 152mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
370mm/an
PET
1 785mm
AET
974mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
158cm
Forest
14%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)