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
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
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)