HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080665610
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 : Buenópolis, Corinto, Joaquim Felício, Lassance
Sub-basin area
991,1km²
Upstream area
24 792,8km²
Discharge
301,91m³/s
Mean elev.
811m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Bicudo2189 km²
- Bassin de Rio das Velhas385 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 809.1 km²81.9% of basin
- 174.0 km²17.6% of basin
- 4.8 km²0.5% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Park
0.47 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
166 distinct species · 3 674 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Rio das Velhas : 27 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 5.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,7°C
Annual rain
1 242mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
329mm/an
PET
1 663mm
AET
1 036mm
Mean slope
4,4°
Water table
271cm
Forest
19%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)