HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080793610
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 6 administrative regions across 3 countries : Ciudad del Este, Foz do Iguaçu, Hernandarias, Iguazú, Minga Guazú +1
Sub-basin area
184km²
Upstream area
834 183,6km²
Discharge
10 264,13m³/s
Mean elev.
204m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Paraná1058 km²
- Bassin de Río Acaray896 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 91.2 km²49.7% of basin
- 55.1 km²30.0% of basin
- 15.6 km²8.5% of basin
- 13.0 km²7.1% of basin
- 8.4 km²4.6% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Laguna Yrendy
IUCN VProtected Landscape
1.66 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 538 distinct species · 440 237 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°
21,4°C
Annual rain
1 715mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
984mm/an
PET
1 601mm
AET
1 402mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
179cm
Forest
47%
Crops
13%
Urban
89%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)