HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080656810
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 3 administrative regions : Diamantina, Olhos-d'Água, Senador Modestino Gonçalves
Sub-basin area
994,4km²
Upstream area
6 367,5km²
Discharge
83,1m³/s
Mean elev.
789m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Tabatinga763 km²
- Bassin de Rio Jequitinhonha42 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 685.5 km²69.2% of basin
- 297.9 km²30.1% of basin
- 7.7 km²0.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
220 distinct species · 565 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 16 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 : 14 espèces reliées par 11 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 9.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
21,6°C
Annual rain
1 098mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
377mm/an
PET
1 624mm
AET
928mm
Mean slope
6,4°
Water table
406cm
Forest
24%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)