HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080812540
Bassin de Rio Uruguai
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 6 administrative regions : Caiçara, Iporã do Oeste, Itapiranga, Mondaí, São João do Oeste +1
Sub-basin area
426,8km²
Upstream area
71 769km²
Discharge
2 063,06m³/s
Mean elev.
326m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio das Antas2707 km²
- Bassin de Rio Iracema749 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 113.9 km²26.7% of basin
- 113.4 km²26.6% of basin
- Caiçara81.8 km²19.2% of basin
- 60.2 km²14.1% of basin
- 42.3 km²9.9% of basin
- 14.5 km²3.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Rio dos Índios
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
7.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
261 distinct species · 715 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 Uruguai : 34 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 43 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 5.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
20,0°C
Annual rain
1 828mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,17
Runoff
890mm/an
PET
1 525mm
AET
1 376mm
Mean slope
10,1°
Water table
403cm
Forest
16%
Crops
46%
Urban
1%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)