HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080824060
Bassin de Arroio Capão Alto
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 2 administrative regions : Capão Alto, Vacaria
Sub-basin area
88,1km²
Upstream area
9 667,8km²
Discharge
238,84m³/s
Mean elev.
866m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Sussurana215 km²
- Bassin de Rio Pelotas162 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 75.8 km²86.2% of basin
- 12.1 km²13.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
28 distinct species · 78 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 6 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 Arroio Capão Alto : 4 espèces reliées par 5 interactions GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 33.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
16,4°C
Annual rain
1 680mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,25
Runoff
853mm/an
PET
1 258mm
AET
1 167mm
Mean slope
8,6°
Water table
299cm
Forest
28%
Crops
16%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)