HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080661820
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 3 administrative regions : Lagamar, Lagoa Grande, Vazante
Sub-basin area
221,9km²
Upstream area
3 134,3km²
Discharge
46,06m³/s
Mean elev.
561m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Paracatu1726 km²
- Bassin de Ribeirão Santa Catarina707 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 124.5 km²56.3% of basin
- 96.7 km²43.7% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% 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°
23,8°C
Annual rain
1 310mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
444mm/an
PET
1 722mm
AET
1 096mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
62cm
Forest
8%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)