HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080652910
Bassin de Rio das Velhas
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 4 administrative regions : Buritizeiro, Jequitaí, Pirapora, Várzea da Palma
Sub-basin area
593,1km²
Upstream area
27 927,5km²
Discharge
323,56m³/s
Mean elev.
550m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio das Velhas499 km²
- Bassin de Ribeirão Magro424 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 403.7 km²68.3% of basin
- 183.0 km²30.9% of basin
- 4.5 km²0.8% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
0.20 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
446 distinct species · 1 902 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 das Velhas : 21 espèces reliées par 27 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
23,3°C
Annual rain
1 054mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
379mm/an
PET
1 786mm
AET
890mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
158cm
Forest
5%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)