HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080645340
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
207,2km²
Upstream area
42 636,3km²
Discharge
504,81m³/s
Mean elev.
525m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ribeirão de Areia853 km²
- Bassin de Rio Paracatu454 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 122.9 km²59.5% of basin
- 83.6 km²40.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
23,4°C
Annual rain
1 016mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
342mm/an
PET
1 832mm
AET
858mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
116cm
Forest
15%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)