HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080705680
Bassin de Rio Betim
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 : Betim, Contagem, Esmeraldas, Ribeirão das Neves
Sub-basin area
254,9km²
Upstream area
254,9km²
Discharge
3,73m³/s
Mean elev.
866m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 142.1 km²55.9% of basin
- 110.4 km²43.4% of basin
- 1.1 km²0.4% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.2% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
117.09 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
0.90 km² overlap
Park
0.29 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
654 distinct species · 9 748 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 Betim : 23 espèces reliées par 30 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
21,0°C
Annual rain
1 382mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,14
Runoff
462mm/an
PET
1 617mm
AET
1 112mm
Mean slope
5,1°
Water table
223cm
Forest
27%
Crops
2%
Urban
46%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)