HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080665480
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 4 administrative regions : Francisco Dumont, Joaquim Felício, Lassance, Várzea da Palma
Sub-basin area
561,2km²
Upstream area
561,4km²
Discharge
5,82m³/s
Mean elev.
951m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 549.8 km²98.3% of basin
- 5.4 km²1.0% of basin
- 2.9 km²0.5% of basin
- 1.4 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Park
0.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
196 distinct species · 386 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°
21,0°C
Annual rain
1 266mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
335mm/an
PET
1 620mm
AET
1 049mm
Mean slope
4,9°
Water table
319cm
Forest
28%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)