HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080662760
Bassin de Rio Mucuri
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 5 administrative regions : Carlos Chagas, Crisólita, Novo Oriente de Minas, Pavão, Teófilo Otoni
Sub-basin area
1 181,7km²
Upstream area
6 346,1km²
Discharge
41,47m³/s
Mean elev.
326m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Marambaia2288 km²
- Bassin de Rio Mucuri1549 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 571.1 km²48.5% of basin
- 267.7 km²22.7% of basin
- 236.2 km²20.1% of basin
- 96.7 km²8.2% of basin
- 6.1 km²0.5% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Mundo Verde/Cachoeirinha
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
3.75 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
15 distinct species · 20 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°
23,7°C
Annual rain
1 003mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
249mm/an
PET
1 667mm
AET
849mm
Mean slope
11,1°
Water table
419cm
Forest
1%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)