HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080799420
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 3 administrative regions : Canoinhas, Paulo Frontin, São Mateus do Sul
Sub-basin area
6,5km²
Upstream area
19 260,9km²
Discharge
427,02m³/s
Mean elev.
762m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Claro596 km²
- Bassin de Rio Iguaçu186 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 3.3 km²50.4% of basin
- 3.2 km²49.6% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 3 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 504mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
714mm/an
PET
1 414mm
AET
1 259mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
44cm
Forest
82%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)