HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080648560
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, João Pinheiro, Unaí
Sub-basin area
40,6km²
Upstream area
18 390,5km²
Discharge
240,25m³/s
Mean elev.
513m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Paracatu2188 km²
- Bassin de Rio Paracatu55 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 28.3 km²70.0% of basin
- 8.4 km²20.8% of basin
- 3.7 km²9.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
86 distinct species · 187 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 10 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 : 7 espèces reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 26.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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 184mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
361mm/an
PET
1 781mm
AET
1 001mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
64cm
Forest
2%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)