HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080737700
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 : Campos dos Goytacazes, Cardoso Moreira, São Fidélis
Sub-basin area
878,4km²
Upstream area
47 744,5km²
Discharge
693,28m³/s
Mean elev.
281m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Paraíba do Sul438 km²
- Bassin de Rio Dois Rios166 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- São FidélisRio de Janeiro · Brazil526.4 km²60.1% of basin
- Campos dos GoytacazesRio de Janeiro · Brazil295.9 km²33.8% of basin
- Cardoso MoreiraRio de Janeiro · Brazil53.7 km²6.1% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
50.37 km² overlap
Parque Estadual Do Desengano
IUCN IIPark
13.39 km² overlap
Wildlife Refuge
9.39 km² overlap
Wildlife Refuge
1.15 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
553 distinct species · 902 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 22 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 : 20 espèces reliées par 18 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
22,0°C
Annual rain
1 174mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
197mm/an
PET
1 482mm
AET
990mm
Mean slope
13,1°
Water table
503cm
Forest
4%
Crops
11%
Urban
1%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)