HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080798570
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 : Canoinhas, São Mateus do Sul
Sub-basin area
27,1km²
Upstream area
16 136,3km²
Discharge
355,74m³/s
Mean elev.
769m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Iguaçu879 km²
- Bassin de Rio Negro234 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 13.9 km²51.2% of basin
- 13.2 km²48.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 4 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°
17,1°C
Annual rain
1 484mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
726mm/an
PET
1 406mm
AET
1 248mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
73cm
Forest
70%
Crops
40%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)