HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080250440
Bassin de Rio Maicuru
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 : Monte Alegre, Prainha
Sub-basin area
1 704,2km²
Upstream area
16 205,7km²
Discharge
152,3m³/s
Mean elev.
43m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Cauçu898 km²
- Bassin de Rio Maicuru72 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1686.1 km²99.4% of basin
- 10.5 km²0.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
434.41 km² overlap
Park
36.15 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
696 distinct species · 3 083 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Maicuru : 26 espèces reliées par 34 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
26,9°C
Annual rain
1 689mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
612mm/an
PET
1 617mm
AET
1 160mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
95cm
Forest
57%
Crops
2%
Urban
1%
Protected
28%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)