HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080459310
Bassin de Rio Curaçá
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 : Curaçá, Juazeiro
Sub-basin area
1 065,3km²
Upstream area
2 459,5km²
Discharge
8,65m³/s
Mean elev.
432m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Curaçá1125 km²
- Bassin de Riacho Poço de Fora269 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 628.6 km²59.3% of basin
- 432.3 km²40.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
114.16 km² overlap
Wildlife Refuge
11.99 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
86 distinct species · 191 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 17 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 Curaçá : 12 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 23 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 12.1%, 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°
23,8°C
Annual rain
494mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
124mm/an
PET
1 786mm
AET
416mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
128cm
Forest
8%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)