HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080600110
Bassin de Rio Cachoeira
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 5 administrative regions : Barro Preto, Buerarema, Ilhéus, Itabuna, Itapé
Sub-basin area
459,5km²
Upstream area
4 271,4km²
Discharge
27,49m³/s
Mean elev.
95m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Piabanha370 km²
- Bassin de Rio Cachoeira47 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 232.7 km²50.8% of basin
- 194.6 km²42.5% of basin
- 17.5 km²3.8% of basin
- 11.7 km²2.6% of basin
- 1.4 km²0.3% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
10.56 km² overlap
Park
1.84 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
0.10 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
0.06 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 696 distinct species · 13 703 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Cachoeira : 27 espèces reliées par 48 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.1%, 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°
24,2°C
Annual rain
1 471mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,10
Runoff
374mm/an
PET
1 302mm
AET
1 172mm
Mean slope
4,2°
Water table
192cm
Forest
74%
Crops
22%
Urban
10%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)