HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080422610
Bassin de Rio Capibaribe
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, Belo Jardim, Bezerros, Brejo da Madre de Deus, Caruaru +13
Sub-basin area
2 057,4km²
Upstream area
4 464,2km²
Discharge
10,18m³/s
Mean elev.
464m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Capibaribe1998 km²
- Bassin de Riacho Tabócas409 km²
18 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 487.8 km²23.8% of basin
- 307.8 km²15.0% of basin
- 212.7 km²10.4% of basin
- 195.6 km²9.5% of basin
- 144.2 km²7.0% of basin
- 137.9 km²6.7% of basin
- 137.3 km²6.7% of basin
- 119.9 km²5.9% of basin
10 moreFull L2 list
- Belo Jardim103.3 km² · 5.0%
- Brejo da Madre de Deus91.7 km² · 4.5%
- Santa Maria do Cambucá38.5 km² · 1.9%
- Toritama25.7 km² · 1.3%
- Tacaimbó24.0 km² · 1.2%
- São Caitano18.8 km² · 0.9%
- Santa Cecília1.9 km² · 0.1%
- Passira1.2 km² · 0.1%
- Salgadinho0.3 km² · 0.0%
- Alcantil0.0 km² · 0.0%
2 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
158.09 km² overlap
Natural Monument
13.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 004 distinct species · 2 768 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 Capibaribe : 26 espèces reliées par 35 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.6%, 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°
22,9°C
Annual rain
612mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,60
Runoff
150mm/an
PET
1 524mm
AET
518mm
Mean slope
4,8°
Water table
384cm
Forest
3%
Crops
17%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)