HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080705160
Bassin de Rio Paraopeba
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 : Betim, Esmeraldas, Igarapé, Juatuba
Sub-basin area
68,9km²
Upstream area
5 801,2km²
Discharge
82,78m³/s
Mean elev.
796m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Paraopeba432 km²
- Bassin de Rio Betim255 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 44.2 km²64.4% of basin
- 18.7 km²27.2% of basin
- 5.3 km²7.7% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
0.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
100 distinct species · 117 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Paraopeba : 28 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 26 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.6%, 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°
21,4°C
Annual rain
1 371mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,17
Runoff
454mm/an
PET
1 644mm
AET
1 113mm
Mean slope
6,7°
Water table
286cm
Forest
17%
Crops
2%
Urban
14%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)