HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080481240
Bassin de Vereda da União
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 5 administrative regions : Avelino Lopes, Buritirama, Júlio Borges, Morro Cabeça no Tempo, Pilão Arcado
Sub-basin area
951km²
Upstream area
951,1km²
Discharge
1,07m³/s
Mean elev.
513m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 862.1 km²91.0% of basin
- 58.6 km²6.2% of basin
- 20.4 km²2.2% of basin
- 5.0 km²0.5% of basin
- 1.0 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 13 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°
24,7°C
Annual rain
852mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
48mm/an
PET
1 955mm
AET
719mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
302cm
Forest
48%
Crops
8%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)