HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080719850
Bassin de Rio Sapucaí
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 13 administrative regions : Alfenas, Alpinópolis, Alterosa, Boa Esperança, Campo do Meio +8
Sub-basin area
2 558km²
Upstream area
25 199,4km²
Discharge
401,96m³/s
Mean elev.
886m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ribeirão das Araras1005 km²
- Bassin de Rio Sapucaí0 km²
13 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1037.9 km²40.7% of basin
- 349.2 km²13.7% of basin
- 266.1 km²10.4% of basin
- 261.1 km²10.2% of basin
- 237.8 km²9.3% of basin
- 105.8 km²4.1% of basin
- 105.0 km²4.1% of basin
- 82.5 km²3.2% of basin
5 moreFull L2 list
- São José da Barra52.3 km² · 2.0%
- Alpinópolis35.1 km² · 1.4%
- Alterosa17.9 km² · 0.7%
- Capitólio0.3 km² · 0.0%
- Alfenas0.1 km² · 0.0%
1 intersecting protected areas
Park
20.53 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
619 distinct species · 1 840 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Sapucaí : 28 espèces reliées par 69 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
20,0°C
Annual rain
1 498mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
478mm/an
PET
1 563mm
AET
1 166mm
Mean slope
6,2°
Water table
278cm
Forest
7%
Crops
28%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)