HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080813730
Bassin de Río Uruguay
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 5 administrative regions across 2 countries : Derrubadas, Esperança do Sul, Guaraní, Tiradentes do Sul, Três Passos
Sub-basin area
285,6km²
Upstream area
82 441,1km²
Discharge
2 341,07m³/s
Mean elev.
278m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Turvo1878 km²
- Bassin de Rio Turvo2 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 112.0 km²39.3% of basin
- 90.2 km²31.6% of basin
- 62.9 km²22.0% of basin
- 19.9 km²7.0% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
San Miguel de la Frontera
IUCN VIPrivate Reserve
2.19 km² overlap
Parque Estadual Do Turvo
IUCN IIPark
0.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
450 distinct species · 2 984 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Río Uruguay : 27 espèces reliées par 35 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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 751mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,12
Runoff
702mm/an
PET
1 535mm
AET
1 348mm
Mean slope
7,4°
Water table
357cm
Forest
25%
Crops
39%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)