HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080735770
Bassin de Rio Paraíba do Sul
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 : Cambuci, Itaocara, São Fidélis
Sub-basin area
437,6km²
Upstream area
43 701,3km²
Discharge
658,79m³/s
Mean elev.
181m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Pomba646 km²
- Bassin de Rio Paraíba do Sul97 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 206.4 km²47.3% of basin
- São FidélisRio de Janeiro · Brazil161.3 km²37.0% of basin
- 68.7 km²15.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Wildlife Refuge
20.35 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
219 distinct species · 491 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 Paraíba do Sul : 23 espèces reliées par 33 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
22,5°C
Annual rain
1 201mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
237mm/an
PET
1 580mm
AET
1 018mm
Mean slope
11,0°
Water table
391cm
Forest
0%
Crops
10%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)