HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080726610
Bassin de Rio das Mortes
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 : Santa Cruz de Minas, São João del Rei, Tiradentes
Sub-basin area
134,7km²
Upstream area
2 815,8km²
Discharge
43,82m³/s
Mean elev.
987m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Elvas872 km²
- Bassin de Rio das Mortes246 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 125.5 km²93.4% of basin
- 5.3 km²4.0% of basin
- 3.6 km²2.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
6.31 km² overlap
Wildlife Refuge
5.12 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
618 distinct species · 2 934 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 das Mortes : 21 espèces reliées par 45 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
19,7°C
Annual rain
1 492mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,02
Runoff
517mm/an
PET
1 517mm
AET
1 138mm
Mean slope
5,9°
Water table
227cm
Forest
0%
Crops
6%
Urban
20%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)