HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080830930
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 4 administrative regions across 2 countries : Garruchos, Santo Antônio das Missões, Santo Tomé, São Borja
Sub-basin area
1 925,6km²
Upstream area
119 819,5km²
Discharge
3 224,98m³/s
Mean elev.
92m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Uruguay2443 km²
- Bassin de Arroio Taquarichim658 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1093.7 km²56.9% of basin
- 481.3 km²25.0% of basin
- 345.0 km²17.9% of basin
- 2.8 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 118 distinct species · 24 076 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 : 21 espèces reliées par 28 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
20,8°C
Annual rain
1 627mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
894mm/an
PET
1 538mm
AET
1 268mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
110cm
Forest
22%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)