HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080682250
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 21 administrative regions : Araçaí, Baldim, Capim Branco, Confins, Cordisburgo +16
Sub-basin area
5 242,6km²
Upstream area
9 979,8km²
Discharge
143,13m³/s
Mean elev.
729m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Taquaraçu801 km²
- Bassin de Rio das Velhas296 km²
21 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 821.5 km²15.7% of basin
- 742.9 km²14.2% of basin
- 635.7 km²12.2% of basin
- 459.9 km²8.8% of basin
- 444.9 km²8.5% of basin
- 352.9 km²6.8% of basin
- 341.0 km²6.5% of basin
- Presidente Juscelino311.0 km²6.0% of basin
13 moreFull L2 list
- Funilândia199.8 km² · 3.8%
- Araçaí187.5 km² · 3.6%
- Matozinhos177.5 km² · 3.4%
- Lagoa Santa142.9 km² · 2.7%
- Prudente de Morais123.6 km² · 2.4%
- Inimutaba95.1 km² · 1.8%
- Paraopeba79.6 km² · 1.5%
- Pedro Leopoldo77.2 km² · 1.5%
- Confins23.4 km² · 0.4%
- Capim Branco9.1 km² · 0.2%
- Taquaraçu de Minas0.8 km² · 0.0%
- Santa Luzia0.5 km² · 0.0%
- Nova União0.0 km² · 0.0%
17 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
344.45 km² overlap
Lund Warming
IUCN IIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
236.98 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
105.88 km² overlap
Parque Estadual Do Sumidouro
IUCN IIPark
20.06 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
2.61 km² overlap
Parque Estadual Cerca Grande
IUCN IIPark
1.34 km² overlap
Park
0.87 km² overlap
Natural Monument
0.73 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
0.63 km² overlap
8 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Wildlife Refuge
0.53 km² overlap
Natural Monument
0.45 km² overlap
Natural Monument
0.39 km² overlap
Natural Monument
0.33 km² overlap
Natural Monument
0.31 km² overlap
Natural Monument
0.24 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
0.17 km² overlap
Natural Monument
0.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 249 distinct species · 20 881 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 : 29 espèces reliées par 38 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.0%, 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°
21,6°C
Annual rain
1 271mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
422mm/an
PET
1 638mm
AET
1 057mm
Mean slope
4,7°
Water table
214cm
Forest
5%
Crops
6%
Urban
3%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)