HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080750410
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 6 administrative regions : Barra Mansa, Barra do Piraí, Quatis, Resende, Valença +1
Sub-basin area
410,2km²
Upstream area
410,2km²
Discharge
7,73m³/s
Mean elev.
575m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Barra MansaRio de Janeiro · Brazil170.3 km²41.6% of basin
- Barra do PiraíRio de Janeiro · Brazil115.4 km²28.2% of basin
- 114.3 km²27.9% of basin
- 4.7 km²1.1% of basin
- Volta RedondaRio de Janeiro · Brazil2.8 km²0.7% of basin
- 1.6 km²0.4% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Natural Monument
30.90 km² overlap
Wildlife Refuge
25.29 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
15.15 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
2.31 km² overlap
Wildlife Refuge
2.02 km² overlap
Wildlife Refuge
0.22 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
125 distinct species · 406 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 Paraíba do Sul : 30 espèces reliées par 29 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
20,3°C
Annual rain
1 432mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
595mm/an
PET
1 487mm
AET
1 125mm
Mean slope
10,5°
Water table
359cm
Forest
4%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)