HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080649030
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, João Pinheiro
Sub-basin area
16,2km²
Upstream area
40 968,1km²
Discharge
497,75m³/s
Mean elev.
501m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Paracatu1346 km²
- Bassin de Rio do Sono364 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 7.6 km²47.1% of basin
- 6.5 km²39.9% of basin
- 2.1 km²12.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 8 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°
23,7°C
Annual rain
1 151mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
367mm/an
PET
1 819mm
AET
973mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
67cm
Forest
20%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)