HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080746150
Bassin de Rio Sapucaí
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 5 administrative regions : Cachoeira de Minas, Piranguinho, Pouso Alegre, Santa Rita do Sapucaí, São Sebastião da Bela Vista
Sub-basin area
334,6km²
Upstream area
3 023,6km²
Discharge
47,8m³/s
Mean elev.
912m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ribeirão Vargem Grande439 km²
- Bassin de Rio Sapucaí149 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 255.8 km²76.6% of basin
- 42.4 km²12.7% of basin
- 26.9 km²8.1% of basin
- 6.2 km²1.9% of basin
- 2.5 km²0.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Biological Reserve
2.68 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
430 distinct species · 3 755 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Sapucaí : 24 espèces reliées par 42 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
19,5°C
Annual rain
1 438mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,07
Runoff
477mm/an
PET
1 540mm
AET
1 155mm
Mean slope
8,2°
Water table
344cm
Forest
2%
Crops
24%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)