HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080644060
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 2 administrative regions : Buritizeiro, Santa Fé de Minas
Sub-basin area
71,5km²
Upstream area
43 025,5km²
Discharge
506,86m³/s
Mean elev.
503m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Paracatu318 km²
- Bassin de Rio Paracatu207 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 38.7 km²54.3% of basin
- 32.5 km²45.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 5 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°
23,5°C
Annual rain
1 007mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
336mm/an
PET
1 846mm
AET
850mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
112cm
Forest
15%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)