HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080650590
Bassin de Rio Araçuaí
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 : Chapada do Norte, José Gonçalves de Minas, Leme do Prado, Minas Novas, Turmalina +1
Sub-basin area
545,1km²
Upstream area
7 485,4km²
Discharge
70,03m³/s
Mean elev.
728m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Itamarandiba2324 km²
- Bassin de Rio Araçuaí181 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 388.7 km²71.5% of basin
- 75.3 km²13.9% of basin
- 59.6 km²11.0% of basin
- 17.3 km²3.2% of basin
- 2.3 km²0.4% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Estação Ecológica De Acauã
IUCN IaEcological Station
21.51 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
126 distinct species · 283 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Araçuaí : 30 espèces reliées par 26 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 4.9%, 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°
21,7°C
Annual rain
959mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
185mm/an
PET
1 672mm
AET
810mm
Mean slope
7,7°
Water table
406cm
Forest
37%
Crops
3%
Urban
2%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)