HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080736580
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 2 administrative regions : Aperibé, Itaocara
Sub-basin area
96,9km²
Upstream area
34 578,1km²
Discharge
543,55m³/s
Mean elev.
118m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Paraíba do Sul496 km²
- Bassin de Rio Paraíba do Sul115 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 74.7 km²77.4% of basin
- 21.9 km²22.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
6.69 km² overlap
Natural Monument
3.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
115 distinct species · 217 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 : 35 espèces reliées par 41 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.5%, 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°
22,8°C
Annual rain
1 234mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
268mm/an
PET
1 607mm
AET
1 047mm
Mean slope
7,9°
Water table
257cm
Forest
0%
Crops
21%
Urban
7%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)