The De Contas River (Portuguese: Rio de Contas) is a river of

Bahia Bahia () is one of the 26 Federative units of Brazil, states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Mina ...

state in eastern

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. In Portuguese, it is sometimes erroneously called "''Rio das Contas''". It is the main river of the hydrographic basin named after him. Its source is in Tromba Mountain, between the municipalities of Piatã and Rio de Contas,( 13°16'48 S - 41°47'02 O ) passing through the cities of Abíra, Jussiape, Dom Basílio, Tanhaçu, Jequié (where the Pedras Dam was erected),

Jitaúna Jitaúna is a municipality in the state of Bahia in the North-East region of Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, ...

Ipiaú Ipiaú is a city in Bahia, Brazil. The city is located at the confluence of the ''Contas River'' and the ''Água-Branca River'' (White-water River). Ipiaú is bordered, in counterclockwise fashion, by ''Ibirataia'' and ''Jequié'' to the north ...

, Itagibá, Barra do Rocha, Ubatã, Ubaitaba and Aurelino Leal, to finally to its mouth in the

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Itacaré Itacaré is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in the Cocoa bean, cocoa zone of the state of Bahia in Brazil, south of Salvador, Brazil, Salvador. Geography Itacaré is located 70 km north of Ilhéus where the Rio de Contas, which come ...

Hydrographic basin

It is one of the sixteen hydrographic basins of the Brazilian state of

, and is subordinate administratively to the National Department of Works to Combat Drought (DNOCS). The basin comprises its main effluents, which are: Brumado River, António River, Gongogi River, Jequiezinho River, Gavião River, Sincorá River and Jacaré River. It encompasses a territory of , with a population of 1,423,153 inhabitants (in 1991). Its economic uses are varied: irrigation, energy production, mining, and supplying the cities in its perimeter. It is the largest basin that is entirely located in the Brazilian state of Bahia, in which are located 86 municipalities, a territory equivalent to 10.2 percent of the state territory. Its limits: in west by the São Francisco Basin; in east by the

; in South by do Rio Pardo and Rio Colônia basins and the Brazilian state of

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; and in North by the basins of the Paraguaçu River and Jequiriçá River.

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Hydrographic basin

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