HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080744370
Bassin de Rio Paraibuna
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 4 administrative regions : Chiador, Comendador Levy Gasparian, Santana do Deserto, Três Rios
Sub-basin area
54,3km²
Upstream area
8 590,4km²
Discharge
123,02m³/s
Mean elev.
361m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Cágado1105 km²
- Bassin de Rio Paraibuna227 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 35.1 km²64.8% of basin
- 17.2 km²31.8% of basin
- Comendador Levy GasparianRio de Janeiro · Brazil1.8 km²3.3% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
15.48 km² overlap
Natural Monument
0.07 km² overlap
Wildlife Refuge
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
213 distinct species · 1 562 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 Paraibuna : 20 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 33 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.7%, 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°
21,7°C
Annual rain
1 550mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,00
Runoff
442mm/an
PET
1 552mm
AET
1 217mm
Mean slope
9,4°
Water table
349cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)