Ontologia

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

Pfafstetter: 63480109

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

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

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.

Densité d'observations

8 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 8
8–7
8–7
8–7
< 8

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

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)