HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080791820
Bassin de Río Paraná
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 across 2 countries : Foz do Iguaçu, Hernandarias, Itaipulândia, Santa Terezinha de Itaipu, São Miguel do Iguaçu
Sub-basin area
1 058,2km²
Upstream area
824 179,1km²
Discharge
10 028,92m³/s
Mean elev.
242m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Ocoi928 km²
- Bassin de Río Paraná146 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 507.6 km²48.1% of basin
- 254.1 km²24.1% of basin
- 149.1 km²14.1% of basin
- 142.0 km²13.5% of basin
- 3.2 km²0.3% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Reserva de la Biosfera Itaipu
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
498.03 km² overlap
Tati Yupi
IUCN IVNatural Reserve
38.05 km² overlap
Pikyry
IUCN IVNatural Reserve
28.65 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 860 distinct species · 19 110 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,0°C
Annual rain
1 705mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
998mm/an
PET
1 576mm
AET
1 405mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
123cm
Forest
21%
Crops
45%
Urban
4%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)