HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080629840
Bassin de Rio Jequitinhonha
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 : Almenara, Jacinto
Sub-basin area
58,5km²
Upstream area
62 014,6km²
Discharge
355,71m³/s
Mean elev.
233m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Rubim do Sul1780 km²
- Bassin de Rio Panela1688 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 29.3 km²50.2% of basin
- 29.1 km²49.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
30 distinct species · 53 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°
24,6°C
Annual rain
815mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
108mm/an
PET
1 668mm
AET
689mm
Mean slope
6,0°
Water table
349cm
Forest
5%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)