HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080744460
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 12 administrative regions : Barra do Piraí, Comendador Levy Gasparian, Engenheiro Paulo de Frontin, Mendes, Miguel Pereira +7
Sub-basin area
1 778,3km²
Upstream area
19 597,8km²
Discharge
344,01m³/s
Mean elev.
522m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Piraí1052 km²
- Bassin de Rio Paraíba do Sul873 km²
12 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 508.4 km²28.7% of basin
- Paraíba do SulRio de Janeiro · Brazil379.2 km²21.4% of basin
- Paty do AlferesRio de Janeiro · Brazil274.5 km²15.5% of basin
- Rio das FloresRio de Janeiro · Brazil206.1 km²11.6% of basin
- 176.8 km²10.0% of basin
- Barra do PiraíRio de Janeiro · Brazil81.6 km²4.6% of basin
- 79.6 km²4.5% of basin
- Miguel PereiraRio de Janeiro · Brazil33.5 km²1.9% of basin
4 moreFull L2 list
- Mendes20.2 km² · 1.1%
- Comendador Levy Gasparian11.2 km² · 0.6%
- Petrópolis1.7 km² · 0.1%
- Engenheiro Paulo de Frontin1.0 km² · 0.1%
22 intersecting protected areas
Wildlife Refuge
71.66 km² overlap
Park
33.57 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
23.03 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
21.15 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
13.00 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
3.36 km² overlap
Natural Monument
3.13 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
2.38 km² overlap
Wildlife Refuge
1.94 km² overlap
13 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Environmental Protection Area
1.55 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
1.28 km² overlap
Natural Monument
1.19 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
1.04 km² overlap
Park
0.33 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
0.22 km² overlap
Natural Monument
0.11 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
0.08 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
0.04 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
0.02 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
0.02 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Park
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 396 distinct species · 8 131 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 Paraíba do Sul : 27 espèces reliées par 41 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.9%, 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°
20,7°C
Annual rain
1 511mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
486mm/an
PET
1 468mm
AET
1 181mm
Mean slope
10,1°
Water table
360cm
Forest
2%
Crops
5%
Urban
6%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)