HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080649080
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 2 administrative regions : Brasilândia de Minas, João Pinheiro
Sub-basin area
155,4km²
Upstream area
28 887,1km²
Discharge
362,49m³/s
Mean elev.
548m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Paracatu41 km²
- Bassin de Rio Preto28 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 122.1 km²78.9% of basin
- 32.7 km²21.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
23,6°C
Annual rain
1 179mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
360mm/an
PET
1 777mm
AET
996mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
91cm
Forest
2%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)