HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080643420
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 3 administrative regions : Berilo, Cristália, José Gonçalves de Minas
Sub-basin area
48,3km²
Upstream area
10 743,7km²
Discharge
130,49m³/s
Mean elev.
621m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Córrego São Miguel321 km²
- Bassin de Rio Jequitinhonha159 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 24.6 km²51.0% of basin
- 14.9 km²30.9% of basin
- 8.7 km²18.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 7 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°
22,1°C
Annual rain
917mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
147mm/an
PET
1 725mm
AET
774mm
Mean slope
10,3°
Water table
484cm
Forest
82%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)