HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080760070
Bassin de Rio da Cachoeira
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 : Atibaia, Bom Jesus dos Perdões, Bragança Paulista, Joanópolis, Nazaré Paulista +1
Sub-basin area
284,3km²
Upstream area
555,9km²
Discharge
10,62m³/s
Mean elev.
908m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ribeirão do Cancã147 km²
- Bassin de Rio da Cachoeira125 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 213.3 km²75.2% of basin
- 28.6 km²10.1% of basin
- JoanópolisSão Paulo · Brazil21.9 km²7.7% of basin
- Nazaré PaulistaSão Paulo · Brazil18.1 km²6.4% of basin
- Bom Jesus dos PerdõesSão Paulo · Brazil0.9 km²0.3% of basin
- Bragança PaulistaSão Paulo · Brazil0.9 km²0.3% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Apa Sistema Cantareira
IUCN VEnvironmental Protection Area
282.66 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
113.77 km² overlap
Natural Heritage Private Reserve
0.32 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
497 distinct species · 3 835 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 da Cachoeira : 23 espèces reliées par 30 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.5%, 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°
17,6°C
Annual rain
1 449mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
650mm/an
PET
1 334mm
AET
1 098mm
Mean slope
9,9°
Water table
354cm
Forest
20%
Crops
2%
Urban
5%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)