HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080463930
Bassin de Riacho do Mocó
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 3 administrative regions : Casa Nova, Sento Sé, Sobradinho
Sub-basin area
865km²
Upstream area
496 512km²
Discharge
2 681,23m³/s
Mean elev.
428m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Riacho Grande2550 km²
- Bassin de Rio São Francisco1857 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 465.2 km²54.0% of basin
- 364.5 km²42.3% of basin
- 31.7 km²3.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
801.27 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
220 distinct species · 577 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 15 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 Riacho do Mocó : 15 espèces reliées par 10 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,4°C
Annual rain
462mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,76
Runoff
28mm/an
PET
1 955mm
AET
388mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
129cm
Forest
11%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
93%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)