HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080816590
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 8 administrative regions across 2 countries : Crissiumal, Doutor Maurício Cardoso, Guaraní, Horizontina, Novo Machado +3
Sub-basin area
1 295,1km²
Upstream area
87 877,3km²
Discharge
2 414,78m³/s
Mean elev.
261m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Buricá2356 km²
- Bassin de Rio Lajeado Grande700 km²
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 446.3 km²34.5% of basin
- 302.3 km²23.4% of basin
- 225.3 km²17.4% of basin
- 145.7 km²11.3% of basin
- 113.8 km²8.8% of basin
- 59.0 km²4.6% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
234 distinct species · 453 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 : 32 espèces reliées par 45 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
20,1°C
Annual rain
1 726mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,11
Runoff
697mm/an
PET
1 538mm
AET
1 336mm
Mean slope
5,4°
Water table
295cm
Forest
41%
Crops
38%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)