HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080636620
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 1 administrative regions : Jequitinhonha
Sub-basin area
833,7km²
Upstream area
50 693,2km²
Discharge
321,11m³/s
Mean elev.
586m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio São Pedro1279 km²
- Bassin de Rio Jequitinhonha238 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 830.9 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Biological Reserve
160.82 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
7.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
524 distinct species · 1 115 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 : 29 espèces reliées par 23 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 4.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
22,6°C
Annual rain
880mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,46
Runoff
79mm/an
PET
1 623mm
AET
744mm
Mean slope
9,3°
Water table
472cm
Forest
20%
Crops
2%
Urban
1%
Protected
19%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)