HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080740160
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 10 administrative regions : Além Paraíba, Areal, Carmo, Chiador, Mar de Espanha +5
Sub-basin area
1 122,7km²
Upstream area
31 336,2km²
Discharge
508,13m³/s
Mean elev.
471m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
10 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- SapucaiaRio de Janeiro · Brazil354.0 km²31.6% of basin
- 245.7 km²21.9% of basin
- 201.8 km²18.0% of basin
- 167.1 km²14.9% of basin
- 57.7 km²5.2% of basin
- 47.2 km²4.2% of basin
- São José do Vale do Rio PretoRio de Janeiro · Brazil38.3 km²3.4% of basin
- 6.1 km²0.5% of basin
2 moreFull L2 list
- Areal1.0 km² · 0.1%
- Senador Cortes0.9 km² · 0.1%
10 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
163.31 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
27.71 km² overlap
Ecological Station
1.22 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
0.59 km² overlap
Natural Monument
0.56 km² overlap
Wildlife Refuge
0.34 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
0.33 km² overlap
Park
0.26 km² overlap
Natural Monument
0.09 km² overlap
1 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Environmental Protection Area
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
829 distinct species · 4 632 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 43 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
21,1°C
Annual rain
1 478mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
426mm/an
PET
1 533mm
AET
1 176mm
Mean slope
12,9°
Water table
397cm
Forest
1%
Crops
6%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)