HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080013150
Bassin de Rio Pau Alto
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 : Caravelas, Mucuri, Nova Viçosa, Serra dos Aimorés
Sub-basin area
1 040,3km²
Upstream area
1 040,5km²
Discharge
12,59m³/s
Mean elev.
72m
Administrative coverage
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 784.7 km²75.7% of basin
- 193.1 km²18.6% of basin
- 49.5 km²4.8% of basin
- 9.6 km²0.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Extractive Reserve
23.45 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
0.37 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
448 distinct species · 943 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Pau Alto : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 38 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
24,2°C
Annual rain
1 289mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
361mm/an
PET
1 448mm
AET
1 087mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
85cm
Forest
32%
Crops
6%
Urban
1%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)