HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080658140
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 3 administrative regions : Lassance, Pirapora, Várzea da Palma
Sub-basin area
498,8km²
Upstream area
26 910,6km²
Discharge
314,19m³/s
Mean elev.
566m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ribeirão Pedra Grande348 km²
- Bassin de Rio das Velhas183 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 466.7 km²93.9% of basin
- 30.4 km²6.1% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
215 distinct species · 1 051 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 : 29 espèces reliées par 29 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 5.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
23,2°C
Annual rain
1 113mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
357mm/an
PET
1 765mm
AET
940mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
159cm
Forest
7%
Crops
3%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)