HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080712960
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 2 administrative regions : Bambuí, Piumhi
Sub-basin area
5,1km²
Upstream area
3 361,1km²
Discharge
49,12m³/s
Mean elev.
728m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Ajudas710 km²
- Bassin de Rio Ajudas63 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2.7 km²54.2% of basin
- 2.3 km²45.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
23 distinct species · 37 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°
20,9°C
Annual rain
1 447mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,12
Runoff
431mm/an
PET
1 652mm
AET
1 160mm
Mean slope
6,0°
Water table
172cm
Forest
4%
Crops
20%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)