HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080651650
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
13,6km²
Upstream area
31 512,6km²
Discharge
384,82m³/s
Mean elev.
516m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Paracatu107 km²
- Bassin de Rio Paracatu103 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 8.8 km²65.0% of basin
- 4.7 km²35.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 6 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 183mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
385mm/an
PET
1 791mm
AET
1 000mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
84cm
Forest
21%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)