HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080829260
Bassin de Rio Pelotas
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 : São Joaquim, São José dos Ausentes
Sub-basin area
140,5km²
Upstream area
1 217,2km²
Discharge
33,31m³/s
Mean elev.
1 175m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Pelotas605 km²
- Bassin de Rio Púlpito472 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 109.8 km²78.3% of basin
- 30.5 km²21.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
402 distinct species · 1 289 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Pelotas : 27 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 38 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.4%, 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°
14,6°C
Annual rain
1 687mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,33
Runoff
894mm/an
PET
1 133mm
AET
1 106mm
Mean slope
9,8°
Water table
363cm
Forest
59%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)