HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080631160
Bassin de Rio Jequitinhonha
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 7 administrative regions : Almenara, Felisburgo, Jequitinhonha, Joaíma, Pedra Azul +2
Sub-basin area
2 504,6km²
Upstream area
55 587,1km²
Discharge
338,04m³/s
Mean elev.
614m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio São Miguel2389 km²
- Bassin de Rio Jequitinhonha834 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1690.2 km²67.7% of basin
- 544.7 km²21.8% of basin
- 256.4 km²10.3% of basin
- 3.3 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.8 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Biological Reserve
348.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
994 distinct species · 2 265 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Jequitinhonha : 23 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 24 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
22,5°C
Annual rain
926mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
89mm/an
PET
1 586mm
AET
783mm
Mean slope
10,0°
Water table
508cm
Forest
16%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
14%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)