HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080304820
Bassin de Rio Piracuruca
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 5 administrative regions : Brasileira, Domingos Mourão, Pedro II, Piracuruca, Piripiri
Sub-basin area
740km²
Upstream area
2 447,8km²
Discharge
13,77m³/s
Mean elev.
149m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Arabê1274 km²
- Bassin de Riacho Curuminquara434 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 325.4 km²44.2% of basin
- 238.7 km²32.4% of basin
- 92.3 km²12.5% of basin
- 43.0 km²5.8% of basin
- 37.3 km²5.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
736.73 km² overlap
Park
0.23 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
285 distinct species · 746 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Piracuruca : 21 espèces reliées par 25 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.1%, 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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
1 259mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
197mm/an
PET
1 878mm
AET
934mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
121cm
Forest
47%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)