HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080012790
Bassin de Rio Jequitinonha
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 : Belmonte, Canavieiras
Sub-basin area
300,1km²
Upstream area
70 981,5km²
Discharge
484,9m³/s
Mean elev.
16m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Jequitinhonha2902 km²
- Bassin de Córrego da Ribeira996 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 269.6 km²90.1% of basin
- 29.5 km²9.9% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Extractive Reserve
28.46 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
19.58 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
3.92 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
631 distinct species · 1 778 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Jequitinonha : 27 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 26 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.0%, 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°
24,1°C
Annual rain
1 582mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,14
Runoff
433mm/an
PET
1 360mm
AET
1 235mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
66cm
Forest
78%
Crops
6%
Urban
2%
Protected
16%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)