HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080648300
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 : João Pinheiro, Paracatu, Unaí
Sub-basin area
2 187,6km²
Upstream area
14 421,3km²
Discharge
195,03m³/s
Mean elev.
544m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Córrego Rico466 km²
- Bassin de Rio Paracatu154 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1091.7 km²50.1% of basin
- 1088.8 km²49.9% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
267 distinct species · 1 301 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 20 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Rio Paracatu : 15 espèces reliées par 21 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
23,8°C
Annual rain
1 271mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,27
Runoff
393mm/an
PET
1 748mm
AET
1 073mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
48cm
Forest
6%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)