HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080702120
Bassin de Rio Piracicaba
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 3 administrative regions : Bela Vista de Minas, Itabira, Nova Era
Sub-basin area
70km²
Upstream area
3 058,4km²
Discharge
50,67m³/s
Mean elev.
671m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Conceição1594 km²
- Bassin de Rio Piracicaba451 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 58.5 km²83.8% of basin
- 10.9 km²15.7% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
0.43 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
15 distinct species · 16 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°
21,0°C
Annual rain
1 346mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
505mm/an
PET
1 552mm
AET
1 102mm
Mean slope
12,7°
Water table
422cm
Forest
40%
Crops
3%
Urban
15%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)