HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080738140
Bassin de Rio Mojiguaçu
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 8 administrative regions : Descalvado, Pirassununga, Porto Ferreira, Santa Cruz das Palmeiras, Santa Rita do Passa Quatro +3
Sub-basin area
1 748,5km²
Upstream area
11 234,7km²
Discharge
187,02m³/s
Mean elev.
664m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Jaguari Mirim2198 km²
- Bassin de Rio Mojiguaçu66 km²
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Santa Rita do Passa QuatroSão Paulo · Brazil647.9 km²37.2% of basin
- PirassunungaSão Paulo · Brazil357.8 km²20.5% of basin
- DescalvadoSão Paulo · Brazil294.1 km²16.9% of basin
- Porto FerreiraSão Paulo · Brazil244.9 km²14.0% of basin
- Santa Cruz das PalmeirasSão Paulo · Brazil102.3 km²5.9% of basin
- 69.0 km²4.0% of basin
- Santa Rosa de ViterboSão Paulo · Brazil17.3 km²1.0% of basin
- 10.6 km²0.6% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Park
8.26 km² overlap
Park
6.04 km² overlap
Area of Relevant Ecological Interest
1.51 km² overlap
Rppn Sitio Kon Tiki
IUCN IVNatural Heritage Private Reserve
0.12 km² overlap
Area of Relevant Ecological Interest
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 482 distinct species · 19 587 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Mojiguaçu : 31 espèces reliées par 44 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.4%, 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°
20,7°C
Annual rain
1 342mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
503mm/an
PET
1 538mm
AET
1 097mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
273cm
Forest
8%
Crops
42%
Urban
5%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)