HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080595540
Bassin de Riacho São Matias
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 : Bonito de Minas, Cônego Marinho, Miravânia, Montalvânia
Sub-basin area
449,1km²
Upstream area
449,2km²
Discharge
3,7m³/s
Mean elev.
750m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 413.7 km²92.4% of basin
- 30.4 km²6.8% of basin
- 1.8 km²0.4% of basin
- 1.6 km²0.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
1.77 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
30 distinct species · 32 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°
22,9°C
Annual rain
1 032mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
260mm/an
PET
1 757mm
AET
872mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
241cm
Forest
21%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)