HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080654710
Bassin de Rio Araçuaí
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 : Carbonita, Turmalina, Veredinha
Sub-basin area
181km²
Upstream area
4 616,8km²
Discharge
47,59m³/s
Mean elev.
756m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio São João961 km²
- Bassin de Córrego Furna659 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 148.2 km²82.1% of basin
- 31.6 km²17.5% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 24 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°
21,7°C
Annual rain
981mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
242mm/an
PET
1 655mm
AET
828mm
Mean slope
8,7°
Water table
484cm
Forest
77%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)