HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080747640
Bassin de Ribeirão Vargem Grande
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 7 administrative regions : Brazópolis, Cachoeira de Minas, Conceição dos Ouros, Paraisópolis, Piranguinho +2
Sub-basin area
438,7km²
Upstream area
438,8km²
Discharge
6,94m³/s
Mean elev.
1 023m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 319.2 km²72.9% of basin
- 61.3 km²14.0% of basin
- 30.4 km²6.9% of basin
- 15.2 km²3.5% of basin
- São Bento do SapucaíSão Paulo · Brazil8.5 km²2.0% of basin
- 1.7 km²0.4% of basin
- 1.4 km²0.3% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
117.77 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
10.32 km² overlap
Apa Sapucaí Mirim
IUCN VEnvironmental Protection Area
8.88 km² overlap
Natural Monument
1.52 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
471 distinct species · 1 564 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Ribeirão Vargem Grande : 32 espèces reliées par 36 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 5.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
18,3°C
Annual rain
1 605mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
503mm/an
PET
1 461mm
AET
1 164mm
Mean slope
11,2°
Water table
399cm
Forest
7%
Crops
15%
Urban
1%
Protected
28%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)