HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080643850
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 5 administrative regions : Araçuaí, Coronel Murta, Itinga, Rubelita, Virgem da Lapa
Sub-basin area
845,4km²
Upstream area
24 376km²
Discharge
213,47m³/s
Mean elev.
553m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Salinas935 km²
- Bassin de Rio Jequitinhonha216 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 658.3 km²78.1% of basin
- 131.7 km²15.6% of basin
- 49.3 km²5.9% of basin
- 3.1 km²0.4% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
108 distinct species · 215 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 Jequitinhonha : 22 espèces reliées par 16 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (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
862mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
84mm/an
PET
1 757mm
AET
727mm
Mean slope
8,5°
Water table
468cm
Forest
9%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)