HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080841780
Bassin de Rio Forqueta
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 11 administrative regions : Arroio do Meio, Canudos do Vale, Capitão, Coqueiro Baixo, Forquetinha +6
Sub-basin area
276,9km²
Upstream area
2 357,4km²
Discharge
58,8m³/s
Mean elev.
280m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Forqueta797 km²
- Bassin de Rio Fão177 km²
11 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 85.2 km²30.8% of basin
- 78.7 km²28.5% of basin
- 36.2 km²13.1% of basin
- 32.6 km²11.8% of basin
- 18.9 km²6.8% of basin
- 16.3 km²5.9% of basin
- 7.5 km²2.7% of basin
- 0.7 km²0.2% of basin
3 moreFull L2 list
- Canudos do Vale0.2 km² · 0.1%
- Lajeado0.1 km² · 0.0%
- Forquetinha0.1 km² · 0.0%
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
609 distinct species · 1 725 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 18 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 Forqueta : 14 espèces reliées par 19 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 11.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
18,8°C
Annual rain
1 385mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
648mm/an
PET
1 302mm
AET
1 148mm
Mean slope
12,4°
Water table
434cm
Forest
55%
Crops
27%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)