HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080658830
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 4 administrative regions : João Pinheiro, Lagoa Grande, Paracatu, Vazante
Sub-basin area
82,9km²
Upstream area
7 825,6km²
Discharge
108,55m³/s
Mean elev.
545m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ribeirão Escurinho4393 km²
- Bassin de Rio Paracatu99 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 75.8 km²91.7% of basin
- 5.8 km²7.0% of basin
- 0.8 km²1.0% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
23,9°C
Annual rain
1 314mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
428mm/an
PET
1 732mm
AET
1 097mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
55cm
Forest
13%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)