HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080719200
Bassin de Rio Grande
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 5 administrative regions : Capitólio, Piumhi, São José da Barra, São João Batista do Glória, Vargem Bonita
Sub-basin area
422km²
Upstream area
52 053,8km²
Discharge
859,2m³/s
Mean elev.
945m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Sapucaí2558 km²
- Bassin de Rio Grande1643 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 239.6 km²56.9% of basin
- 107.6 km²25.6% of basin
- 73.2 km²17.4% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Park
150.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
591 distinct species · 2 986 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Grande : 25 espèces reliées par 56 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
19,8°C
Annual rain
1 535mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
476mm/an
PET
1 544mm
AET
1 158mm
Mean slope
7,3°
Water table
330cm
Forest
7%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
36%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)