HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080694610
Bassin de Rio Caratinga
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 : Engenheiro Caldas, Inhapim, Tarumirim
Sub-basin area
152km²
Upstream area
1 208,4km²
Discharge
14,56m³/s
Mean elev.
368m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Caratinga859 km²
- Bassin de Córrego Macacame198 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 111.5 km²73.6% of basin
- 40.0 km²26.4% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
65 distinct species · 255 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 19 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 Caratinga : 16 espèces reliées par 17 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.9%, 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°
23,2°C
Annual rain
1 189mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
358mm/an
PET
1 676mm
AET
1 008mm
Mean slope
10,6°
Water table
391cm
Forest
0%
Crops
12%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)