HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080408510
Bassin de Rio Paraíba
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 18 administrative regions : Alcantil, Aroeiras, Barra de Santana, Barra de São Miguel, Boqueirão +13
Sub-basin area
1 771,1km²
Upstream area
15 512,8km²
Discharge
12,02m³/s
Mean elev.
412m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Bodocongó1077 km²
- Bassin de Rio Paraíba547 km²
18 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 309.6 km²17.6% of basin
- 246.8 km²14.0% of basin
- 214.4 km²12.2% of basin
- 182.7 km²10.4% of basin
- 167.8 km²9.5% of basin
- 154.9 km²8.8% of basin
- 154.7 km²8.8% of basin
- 149.9 km²8.5% of basin
10 moreFull L2 list
- Riacho de Santo Antônio93.7 km² · 5.3%
- Taquaritinga do Norte38.0 km² · 2.2%
- Boqueirão37.4 km² · 2.1%
- Orobó5.5 km² · 0.3%
- São Vicente Férrer3.3 km² · 0.2%
- Santa Maria do Cambucá2.2 km² · 0.1%
- Casinhas1.1 km² · 0.1%
- Vertente do Lério0.7 km² · 0.0%
- Vertentes0.7 km² · 0.0%
- Queimadas0.0 km² · 0.0%
1 intersecting protected areas
Wildlife Refuge
0.32 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
240 distinct species · 332 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 Paraíba : 35 espèces reliées par 52 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 5.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
23,6°C
Annual rain
605mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,61
Runoff
98mm/an
PET
1 547mm
AET
512mm
Mean slope
5,7°
Water table
569cm
Forest
11%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)