HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080783700
Bassin de Rio Cantu
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 : Altamira do Paraná, Laranjal, Nova Cantu, Palmital, Roncador
Sub-basin area
504,3km²
Upstream area
2 154,5km²
Discharge
59,62m³/s
Mean elev.
522m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Água Quente161 km²
- Bassin de Rio Cantu12 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 212.0 km²42.1% of basin
- 155.4 km²30.9% of basin
- 127.9 km²25.4% of basin
- 6.0 km²1.2% of basin
- 1.9 km²0.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
380 distinct species · 2 072 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Cantu : 30 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 68 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 10.8%, 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°
19,4°C
Annual rain
1 664mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,11
Runoff
815mm/an
PET
1 486mm
AET
1 375mm
Mean slope
8,0°
Water table
292cm
Forest
0%
Crops
22%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)