HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080699480
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 5 administrative regions : Caeté, Lagoa Santa, Sabará, Santa Luzia, Taquaraçu de Minas
Sub-basin area
295,6km²
Upstream area
3 936,5km²
Discharge
63,45m³/s
Mean elev.
819m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio das Velhas2859 km²
- Bassin de Ribeirão da Mata782 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 109.4 km²37.1% of basin
- Santa Luzia98.5 km²33.4% of basin
- 49.2 km²16.7% of basin
- 37.5 km²12.7% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Wildlife Refuge
22.24 km² overlap
Natural Monument
2.22 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
299 distinct species · 571 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 : 32 espèces reliées par 34 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 4.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
20,9°C
Annual rain
1 402mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,09
Runoff
475mm/an
PET
1 547mm
AET
1 106mm
Mean slope
8,1°
Water table
305cm
Forest
28%
Crops
3%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)