HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080297770
Bassin de Rio Curu
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 7 administrative regions : Apuiarés, Canindé, General Sampaio, Itapajé, Paramoti +2
Sub-basin area
1 383,1km²
Upstream area
2 651,3km²
Discharge
4,16m³/s
Mean elev.
149m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Curu917 km²
- Bassin de Riacho da Conceição351 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 440.4 km²32.0% of basin
- 391.0 km²28.4% of basin
- 228.6 km²16.6% of basin
- 226.3 km²16.4% of basin
- 74.2 km²5.4% of basin
- 13.1 km²0.9% of basin
- 3.5 km²0.3% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
6.39 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
2.08 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
1.17 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
0.36 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
308 distinct species · 555 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 Curu : 39 espèces reliées par 38 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 3.7%, 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°
26,0°C
Annual rain
772mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
134mm/an
PET
1 627mm
AET
654mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
193cm
Forest
90%
Crops
7%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)