HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080567990
Bassin de Rio das Mortes
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 : Canarana, Cocalinho, Ribeirão Cascalheira
Sub-basin area
1 026,5km²
Upstream area
47 092,5km²
Discharge
848,64m³/s
Mean elev.
237m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Agua-Suja1545 km²
- Bassin de Rio das Mortes427 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 609.2 km²59.6% of basin
- 406.2 km²39.7% of basin
- 7.2 km²0.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Pimentel Barbosa
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
406.83 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
79 distinct species · 90 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 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 das Mortes : 19 espèces reliées par 20 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
1 556mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,16
Runoff
466mm/an
PET
1 863mm
AET
1 201mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
12cm
Forest
34%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
40%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)