HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080484690
Bassin · #6080484690
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 4 administrative regions : Avelino Lopes, Buritirama, Morro Cabeça no Tempo, Pilão Arcado
Sub-basin area
1 137,9km²
Upstream area
1 137,9km²
Discharge
0,94m³/s
Mean elev.
575m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 883.0 km²77.9% of basin
- 243.4 km²21.5% of basin
- 6.8 km²0.6% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
39 distinct species · 46 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°
24,4°C
Annual rain
845mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
39mm/an
PET
1 941mm
AET
713mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
328cm
Forest
82%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)