HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080800630
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, Paula Freitas, Paulo Frontin
Sub-basin area
324,1km²
Upstream area
20 164,6km²
Discharge
447,85m³/s
Mean elev.
794m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Paciência579 km²
- Bassin de Rio Iguaçu7 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 219.4 km²67.8% of basin
- 103.4 km²32.0% of basin
- 0.7 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Environmental Protection Area
1.84 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
133 distinct species · 169 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 : 32 espèces reliées par 41 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 5.3%, 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°
17,0°C
Annual rain
1 525mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
701mm/an
PET
1 412mm
AET
1 263mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
128cm
Forest
16%
Crops
37%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)