HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080662030
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 2 administrative regions : Lassance, Várzea da Palma
Sub-basin area
182,8km²
Upstream area
26 063,2km²
Discharge
309,78m³/s
Mean elev.
562m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ribeirão do Cotovelo330 km²
- Bassin de Rio das Velhas196 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 128.4 km²70.5% of basin
- 53.8 km²29.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
23,2°C
Annual rain
1 138mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
344mm/an
PET
1 758mm
AET
961mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
151cm
Forest
6%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)