HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080698020
Bassin de Rio Manhuaçu
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 18 administrative regions : Aimorés, Alvarenga, Caratinga, Conceição de Ipanema, Conselheiro Pena +13
Sub-basin area
2 288,6km²
Upstream area
3 788,3km²
Discharge
48,76m³/s
Mean elev.
581m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio São Mateus395 km²
- Bassin de Rio Manhuaçu74 km²
18 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 496.7 km²21.8% of basin
- 336.6 km²14.7% of basin
- 275.2 km²12.1% of basin
- 262.2 km²11.5% of basin
- 248.9 km²10.9% of basin
- 201.3 km²8.8% of basin
- 173.7 km²7.6% of basin
- 171.1 km²7.5% of basin
10 moreFull L2 list
- Santa Rita do Itueto83.3 km² · 3.6%
- Conceição de Ipanema21.2 km² · 0.9%
- Imbé de Minas6.3 km² · 0.3%
- Piedade de Caratinga2.7 km² · 0.1%
- Reduto1.4 km² · 0.1%
- Tarumirim0.7 km² · 0.0%
- Durandé0.5 km² · 0.0%
- Taparuba0.1 km² · 0.0%
- São José do Mantimento0.1 km² · 0.0%
- Aimorés0.1 km² · 0.0%
2 intersecting protected areas
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
9.50 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
0.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 125 distinct species · 4 500 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Manhuaçu : 19 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 32 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
21,8°C
Annual rain
1 220mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
358mm/an
PET
1 623mm
AET
1 032mm
Mean slope
14,3°
Water table
464cm
Forest
9%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)