HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080701240
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 22 administrative regions : Barão de Cocais, Belo Horizonte, Belo Vale, Betim, Brumadinho +17
Sub-basin area
2 858,6km²
Upstream area
2 859km²
Discharge
47,8m³/s
Mean elev.
1 038m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
22 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 623.1 km²21.9% of basin
- 540.5 km²19.0% of basin
- 426.0 km²14.9% of basin
- 323.0 km²11.3% of basin
- 229.8 km²8.1% of basin
- 228.0 km²8.0% of basin
- 191.7 km²6.7% of basin
- Santa Luzia121.9 km²4.3% of basin
14 moreFull L2 list
- Contagem81.2 km² · 2.9%
- Raposos72.2 km² · 2.5%
- Santa Bárbara5.9 km² · 0.2%
- Vespasiano2.7 km² · 0.1%
- Brumadinho1.1 km² · 0.0%
- Ribeirão das Neves1.0 km² · 0.0%
- Congonhas0.9 km² · 0.0%
- Moeda0.8 km² · 0.0%
- Belo Vale0.4 km² · 0.0%
- Ouro Branco0.2 km² · 0.0%
- Lagoa Santa0.0 km² · 0.0%
- Mariana0.0 km² · 0.0%
- Betim0.0 km² · 0.0%
- Barão de Cocais0.0 km² · 0.0%
29 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
993.69 km² overlap
Park
146.37 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
138.72 km² overlap
Floresta Estadual Do Uaimii
IUCN VIForest
44.07 km² overlap
Park
18.46 km² overlap
Estação Ecológica De Arêdes
IUCN IaEcological Station
12.21 km² overlap
Natural Monument
9.06 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
7.26 km² overlap
Estação Ecológica De Fechos
IUCN IaEcological Station
5.64 km² overlap
20 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Park
5.17 km² overlap
Natural Monument
5.11 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
4.25 km² overlap
Natural Monument
3.94 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
3.28 km² overlap
Ecological Station
2.25 km² overlap
Natural Monument
2.00 km² overlap
Parque Estadual Serra Verde
IUCN IIPark
1.42 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
1.22 km² overlap
Natural Monument
1.10 km² overlap
Parque Estadual da Baleia
IUCN IIPark
1.07 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
0.94 km² overlap
Park
0.65 km² overlap
Natural Monument
0.44 km² overlap
Park
0.35 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
0.25 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
0.25 km² overlap
Park
0.19 km² overlap
Park
0.04 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 596 distinct species · 195 928 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 20 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 : 16 espèces reliées par 20 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
19,3°C
Annual rain
1 477mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
504mm/an
PET
1 495mm
AET
1 105mm
Mean slope
9,6°
Water table
353cm
Forest
58%
Crops
1%
Urban
20%
Protected
41%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)