HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080728770
Bassin de Rio Muriaé
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 9 administrative regions : Antônio Prado de Minas, Barão de Monte Alto, Eugenópolis, Itaperuna, Laje do Muriaé +4
Sub-basin area
629,9km²
Upstream area
3 654km²
Discharge
46,8m³/s
Mean elev.
278m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ribeirão do Sul444 km²
- Bassin de Rio Gavião362 km²
9 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 372.6 km²59.3% of basin
- Laje do MuriaéRio de Janeiro · Brazil244.3 km²38.9% of basin
- 4.2 km²0.7% of basin
- 2.4 km²0.4% of basin
- NatividadeRio de Janeiro · Brazil2.0 km²0.3% of basin
- 1.1 km²0.2% of basin
- 0.8 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.7 km²0.1% of basin
1 moreFull L2 list
- São José de Ubá0.1 km² · 0.0%
6 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
59.71 km² overlap
Natural Monument
7.71 km² overlap
Wildlife Refuge
5.55 km² overlap
Wildlife Refuge
4.51 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
2.03 km² overlap
Wildlife Refuge
1.83 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
143 distinct species · 288 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 Muriaé : 18 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 25 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
22,3°C
Annual rain
1 254mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
325mm/an
PET
1 629mm
AET
1 063mm
Mean slope
10,4°
Water table
351cm
Forest
2%
Crops
7%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)