HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080609460
Bassin de Rio São Francisco
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 6 administrative regions : Cônego Marinho, Ibiracatu, Itacarambi, Januária, Pedras de Maria da Cruz +1
Sub-basin area
2 700,9km²
Upstream area
198 115,5km²
Discharge
2 040,22m³/s
Mean elev.
601m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio São Francisco890 km²
- Bassin de Rio São Francisco772 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1214.5 km²45.1% of basin
- 627.4 km²23.3% of basin
- 370.4 km²13.8% of basin
- 279.3 km²10.4% of basin
- 120.1 km²4.5% of basin
- 79.6 km²3.0% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
390.75 km² overlap
Peruaçu River Canyon
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
106.53 km² overlap
Park
106.53 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
38.08 km² overlap
Park
33.90 km² overlap
Natural Monument
1.86 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
0.38 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
807 distinct species · 9 374 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 21 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 São Francisco : 17 espèces reliées par 19 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.2%, 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°
23,8°C
Annual rain
987mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
206mm/an
PET
1 770mm
AET
834mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
205cm
Forest
10%
Crops
3%
Urban
1%
Protected
20%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)