National Park · arg
Iguazú
- Area
- 512 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1934
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1934
- Managing authority
- Administración de Parques Nacionales
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
3 227 distinct species · 171 378 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Iguazú : 30 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 37 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.9%, 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).
Hydrology1 basins · 0 lakes · 12 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
177,0km
Basins crossed
1
Max stream order
7
Max drainage
67 537km²
Discharge in basins
416,0m³/s
Mean precip.
1 766mm/an
Mean T°
20,3°C
Moisture idx
0,09
Mean runoff
1 115mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
268m
Watersheds crossing here
Rivers / streams (12, ord ≥ 4)
- Río Iguazúord 7len here54.33 km31%total175 km
- Arroyo Yacuyord 3len here21.38 km37%total58 km
- Arroyo Ibicuyord 3len here21.36 km99%total22 km
- Arroyo Santo Domingo Chicoord 2len here21.07 km100%total21 km
- Arroyo Santo Domingoord 2len here14.36 km100%total14 km
- Arroyo Ñandúord 2len here12.29 km66%total19 km
- Arroyo Ibicuíord 2len here11.27 km100%total11 km
- Arroyo Centralord 4len here9.52 km14%total70 km
- Arroyo Yacuy Chicoord 2len here5.32 km100%total5 km
- Arroyo Ñandú Chicoord 1len here4.08 km62%total7 km
- Arroyo Cataratasord 1len here1.70 km48%total4 km
- Arroyo Caiabozáord 2len here0.35 km7%total5 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- -25.64656, -54.28441
- Open in maps
- OpenStreetMap → · Satellite →
Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.