HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080639910
Bassin de Rio Paracatu
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 3 administrative regions : Buritizeiro, Ponto Chique, Santa Fé de Minas
Sub-basin area
670,1km²
Upstream area
45 168,8km²
Discharge
518,85m³/s
Mean elev.
529m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Santa Fé1473 km²
- Bassin de Rio Paracatu72 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 358.9 km²53.7% of basin
- 308.9 km²46.3% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
14 distinct species · 27 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°
23,3°C
Annual rain
1 037mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
327mm/an
PET
1 849mm
AET
875mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
78cm
Forest
4%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)