HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080675820
Bassin de Rio Urupuca
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 4 administrative regions : Itambacuri, Santa Maria do Suaçuí, São José da Safira, Água Boa
Sub-basin area
402,6km²
Upstream area
3 100,6km²
Discharge
30,02m³/s
Mean elev.
390m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Riberão Água Boa759 km²
- Bassin de Rio Urupuca77 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 183.8 km²45.8% of basin
- 182.4 km²45.4% of basin
- Água Boa34.3 km²8.5% of basin
- 0.9 km²0.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
17 distinct species · 26 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 4 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 Urupuca : 4 espèces reliées par 2 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 33.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,9°C
Annual rain
1 146mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
327mm/an
PET
1 673mm
AET
970mm
Mean slope
10,1°
Water table
344cm
Forest
2%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)