HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080797280
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 5 administrative regions across 2 countries : Domingo Martínez de Irala, Iguazú, Los Cedrales, Presidente Franco, Santa Rosa del Monday
Sub-basin area
843,8km²
Upstream area
909 276,9km²
Discharge
12 272m³/s
Mean elev.
219m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Monday460 km²
- Bassin de Arroyo Tacuara12 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 331.6 km²39.4% of basin
- 258.7 km²30.7% of basin
- 192.2 km²22.8% of basin
- 41.8 km²5.0% of basin
- 17.9 km²2.1% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Puerto Peninsula
IUCN IIProvincial Park
69.80 km² overlap
Puerto Península
IUCN Not ReportedNature Reserve of Defense
68.34 km² overlap
Iguazú
IUCN VINational Reserve
21.19 km² overlap
Iguazu National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
20.88 km² overlap
Tabucai
IUCN IVNatural Reserve
5.68 km² overlap
Moises Santiago Bertoni
IUCN IaScientific Monument
2.32 km² overlap
Andres Giai
IUCN VProtected Landscape
0.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 525 distinct species · 354 139 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 20 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 Paraná : 19 espèces + 1 bulle famille, 15 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 7.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 1 bulle regroupe 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°
20,9°C
Annual rain
1 671mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
958mm/an
PET
1 628mm
AET
1 369mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
190cm
Forest
50%
Crops
30%
Urban
1%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)