HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080854410
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 3 administrative regions across 3 countries : Barra do Quaraí, Bella Unión, Monte Caseros
Sub-basin area
209,7km²
Upstream area
219 907,4km²
Discharge
5 540,66m³/s
Mean elev.
52m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 142.2 km²67.8% of basin
- 67.3 km²32.1% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Rincón de Franquía
IUCN IVHabitat/Species Management Area
6.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
705 distinct species · 32 242 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 26 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 : 20 espèces reliées par 25 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.7%, 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°
19,6°C
Annual rain
1 361mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
576mm/an
PET
1 448mm
AET
1 148mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
73cm
Forest
7%
Crops
11%
Urban
8%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)