HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080010980
Bassin de Rio Potengi
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 2 administrative regions : Natal, São Gonçalo do Amarante
Sub-basin area
63km²
Upstream area
4 183,9km²
Discharge
15,29m³/s
Mean elev.
28m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Jundiaí766 km²
- Bassin de Rio da Prata176 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 56.5 km²90.0% of basin
- 6.3 km²10.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
0.34 km² overlap
Park
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
93 distinct species · 144 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 Potengi : 43 espèces reliées par 49 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 4.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
25,8°C
Annual rain
1 432mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,09
Runoff
460mm/an
PET
1 568mm
AET
1 031mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
142cm
Forest
19%
Crops
1%
Urban
82%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)