HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080644250
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 : Botumirim, Cristália, José Gonçalves de Minas
Sub-basin area
159,4km²
Upstream area
10 374,5km²
Discharge
127,77m³/s
Mean elev.
699m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Jequitinhonha580 km²
- Bassin de Córrego Estribeira267 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 92.3 km²58.1% of basin
- 66.4 km²41.8% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
24 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°
21,8°C
Annual rain
935mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
170mm/an
PET
1 697mm
AET
789mm
Mean slope
9,2°
Water table
498cm
Forest
46%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)