HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080010170
Bassin de Rio Aracatiaçu
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 : Amontada, Itapipoca, Itarema
Sub-basin area
798,4km²
Upstream area
3 454,2km²
Discharge
16,46m³/s
Mean elev.
35m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Riachão691 km²
- Bassin de Rio Aracatiaçu584 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 727.9 km²91.6% of basin
- 64.0 km²8.1% of basin
- 2.9 km²0.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
229 distinct species · 952 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 Aracatiaçu : 29 espèces reliées par 39 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 6.2%, 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°
27,3°C
Annual rain
1 102mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
270mm/an
PET
1 781mm
AET
852mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
65cm
Forest
18%
Crops
9%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)