HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080797540
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 4 administrative regions : Bituruna, Coronel Domingos Soares, Mangueirinha, Reserva do Iguaçu
Sub-basin area
775,1km²
Upstream area
33 352,8km²
Discharge
691,23m³/s
Mean elev.
948m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Iratim1687 km²
- Bassin de Rio Iguaçu774 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 506.0 km²65.4% of basin
- 182.2 km²23.6% of basin
- 83.9 km²10.8% of basin
- 1.5 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ecological Station
9.83 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
429 distinct species · 3 553 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 : 20 espèces reliées par 27 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
16,5°C
Annual rain
1 883mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,26
Runoff
786mm/an
PET
1 398mm
AET
1 323mm
Mean slope
10,0°
Water table
408cm
Forest
58%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)