HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080678120
Bassin de Rio Paraúna
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 : Curvelo, Monjolos, Presidente Juscelino, Santo Hipólito
Sub-basin area
143,3km²
Upstream area
4 481,6km²
Discharge
61,3m³/s
Mean elev.
668m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Paraúna243 km²
- Bassin de Ribeirão Galheiro184 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Presidente Juscelino75.6 km²52.9% of basin
- 66.7 km²46.7% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.2% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Apa Quebra-Pé
IUCN VEnvironmental Protection Area
0.28 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 24 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°
22,0°C
Annual rain
1 167mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,30
Runoff
358mm/an
PET
1 675mm
AET
986mm
Mean slope
4,8°
Water table
278cm
Forest
1%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)