HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080794760
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 2 administrative regions : Chopinzinho, Porto Barreiro
Sub-basin area
36,6km²
Upstream area
42 459,9km²
Discharge
861,83m³/s
Mean elev.
593m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Cavernoso2655 km²
- Bassin de Rio Iguaçu680 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 30.8 km²84.4% of basin
- 5.7 km²15.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 8 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
18,3°C
Annual rain
1 797mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,17
Runoff
686mm/an
PET
1 499mm
AET
1 385mm
Mean slope
8,3°
Water table
326cm
Forest
7%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)