HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080727830
Bassin de Ribeirão das Araras
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 6 administrative regions : Alfenas, Campo do Meio, Campos Gerais, Fama, Santana da Vargem +1
Sub-basin area
1 005,2km²
Upstream area
18 905,1km²
Discharge
304,08m³/s
Mean elev.
838m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Machado1176 km²
- Bassin de Rio Sapucaí177 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 568.5 km²56.7% of basin
- 207.8 km²20.7% of basin
- 183.6 km²18.3% of basin
- 37.4 km²3.7% of basin
- 4.4 km²0.4% of basin
- 0.8 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
0.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
350 distinct species · 6 671 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 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 Ribeirão das Araras : 19 espèces reliées par 22 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
20,4°C
Annual rain
1 461mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,08
Runoff
462mm/an
PET
1 597mm
AET
1 180mm
Mean slope
4,7°
Water table
220cm
Forest
3%
Crops
40%
Urban
2%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)