HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080682660
Bassin de Rio Cricaré
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 : Barra de São Francisco, Nova Venécia, Vila Pavão, Águia Branca
Sub-basin area
509,5km²
Upstream area
3 465,2km²
Discharge
32,75m³/s
Mean elev.
234m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio São Francisco401 km²
- Bassin de Rio Cricaré93 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 310.1 km²61.1% of basin
- 153.2 km²30.2% of basin
- 38.6 km²7.6% of basin
- 6.0 km²1.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
162 distinct species · 237 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 21 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 Cricaré : 17 espèces reliées par 16 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
23,7°C
Annual rain
1 124mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,30
Runoff
315mm/an
PET
1 610mm
AET
952mm
Mean slope
11,9°
Water table
402cm
Forest
3%
Crops
25%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)