HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080673390
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 : Corinto, Curvelo, Monjolos, Santo Hipólito
Sub-basin area
807km²
Upstream area
17 010,7km²
Discharge
225,76m³/s
Mean elev.
603m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Paraúna143 km²
- Bassin de Rio das Velhas62 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 420.1 km²52.2% of basin
- 244.3 km²30.4% of basin
- 138.5 km²17.2% of basin
- 1.5 km²0.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
656 distinct species · 3 377 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 : 20 espèces reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 6.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
22,4°C
Annual rain
1 135mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
324mm/an
PET
1 710mm
AET
959mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
187cm
Forest
3%
Crops
6%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)