HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080655500
Bassin de Ribeirão Castelhano
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 : Campo Alegre de Goiás, Cristalina, Ipameri, Paracatu
Sub-basin area
691,8km²
Upstream area
691,8km²
Discharge
8,31m³/s
Mean elev.
900m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- CristalinaGoiás · Brazil423.6 km²61.4% of basin
- 260.7 km²37.8% of basin
- Campo Alegre de GoiásGoiás · Brazil4.9 km²0.7% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
61 distinct species · 129 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°
22,2°C
Annual rain
1 360mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
381mm/an
PET
1 703mm
AET
1 150mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
222cm
Forest
4%
Crops
18%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)