HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080793090
Bassin de Rio Iguaçu
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 7 administrative regions : Cruzeiro do Iguaçu, Espigão Alto do Iguaçu, Quedas do Iguaçu, Rio Bonito do Iguaçu, Sulina +2
Sub-basin area
670km²
Upstream area
45 891,6km²
Discharge
943,26m³/s
Mean elev.
527m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio das Cobras756 km²
- Bassin de Rio Iguaçu564 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 389.2 km²58.2% of basin
- 160.7 km²24.0% of basin
- 63.0 km²9.4% of basin
- 55.7 km²8.3% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
165 distinct species · 304 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Iguaçu : 24 espèces reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
18,5°C
Annual rain
1 800mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,15
Runoff
847mm/an
PET
1 537mm
AET
1 426mm
Mean slope
5,7°
Water table
273cm
Forest
23%
Crops
29%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)