HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080793870
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 5 administrative regions : Chopinzinho, Porto Barreiro, Rio Bonito do Iguaçu, Saudade do Iguaçu, Sulina
Sub-basin area
384,9km²
Upstream area
43 304,2km²
Discharge
878,95m³/s
Mean elev.
619m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Chopinzinho459 km²
- Bassin de Rio Iguaçu37 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 121.4 km²31.6% of basin
- 90.5 km²23.6% of basin
- 90.1 km²23.5% of basin
- 82.0 km²21.4% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
68 distinct species · 89 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 Iguaçu : 16 espèces reliées par 15 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 9.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
18,1°C
Annual rain
1 811mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,17
Runoff
711mm/an
PET
1 501mm
AET
1 391mm
Mean slope
7,1°
Water table
293cm
Forest
6%
Crops
18%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)