HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080793900
Bassin de Río Monday
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 2 countries : Ciudad del Este, Iguazú, Los Cedrales, Minga Guazú, Presidente Franco +1
Sub-basin area
460,1km²
Upstream area
6 700,9km²
Discharge
164,73m³/s
Mean elev.
223m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Monday1064 km²
- Bassin · #6080794460332 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 216.3 km²47.1% of basin
- 167.1 km²36.4% of basin
- 70.0 km²15.2% of basin
- 3.5 km²0.8% of basin
- 1.5 km²0.3% of basin
- 0.8 km²0.2% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Maharishi
IUCN IVNatural Reserve
4.42 km² overlap
Salto del Monday
IUCN VProtected Landscape
3.93 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 833 distinct species · 168 239 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Río Monday : 23 espèces + 6 bulles famille, 35 interactions GloBI documentées sur 4 types (connectance 8.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 6 bulles regroupent des espèces visuellement absorbées par famille (≥3 espèces visibles).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,2°C
Annual rain
1 626mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,02
Runoff
932mm/an
PET
1 591mm
AET
1 351mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
138cm
Forest
31%
Crops
30%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)