HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080646790
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 3 administrative regions : Brasilândia de Minas, Buritizeiro, Santa Fé de Minas
Sub-basin area
454,1km²
Upstream area
41 576,6km²
Discharge
497,44m³/s
Mean elev.
538m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Paracatu154 km²
- Bassin de Rio Paracatu16 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 229.1 km²50.6% of basin
- 180.9 km²40.0% of basin
- 42.6 km²9.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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 088mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
354mm/an
PET
1 819mm
AET
919mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
116cm
Forest
7%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)