{"id":2974697,"date":"2026-07-09T06:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=2974697"},"modified":"2026-07-09T09:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:36:23","slug":"hydrosheds-2-0-now-available-for-the-americas-in-the-living-atlas","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/water\/hydrosheds-2-0-now-available-for-the-americas-in-the-living-atlas","title":{"rendered":"HydroSHEDS 2.0 Now Available for the Americas in the Living Atlas"},"author":7841,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23051],"tags":[40161],"industry":[],"product":[36581],"class_list":["post-2974697","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water","tag-living-atlas-of-the-world","product-arcgis-living-atlas"],"acf":{"authors":[{"ID":7841,"user_firstname":"Dan","user_lastname":"Pisut","nickname":"Dan Pisut","user_nicename":"dan-pisut","display_name":"Dan Pisut","user_email":"DPisut@esri.com","user_url":"https:\/\/livingatlas.arcgis.com","user_registered":"2018-04-16 21:24:57","user_description":"Dan leads development of ArcGIS Living Atlas environmental content, which includes information about Earth's land, ocean, atmosphere, climate, and ecosystems. Prior to Esri, Dan worked at NOAA for two decades, leading data visualization efforts for research, communications, and education.","user_avatar":""}],"short_description":"Esri and global partners have released HydroSHEDS 2.0, providing high-resolution hydrologic data for North, Central, and South America. ","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Without detailed maps of surface water features, engineers, scientists, and policy makers are unable to understand ecosystem functions, assess flood risk, or effectively manage critical freshwater supplies. However, in many other parts of the world, detailed maps of river networks and watersheds are lacking. Since 2006, HydroSHEDS has filled this gap as one of the world’s most widely used hydrographic frameworks.<\/p>\n

Recently, Esri has partnered with the developer of HydroSHEDS, Confluvio Consulting, along with other international organizations to develop a higher resolution, more accurate network of streams and rivers for North and South America. HydroSHEDS 2.0 is now available in the Living Atlas.<\/p>\n

You can read more about this partnership here<\/a>.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

What\u2019s available from HydrSHEDS 2.0?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Three services are available in Living Atlas:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. River Streamlines<\/a>: The centerline features for each stream and river. The layer provides attributes that describe flow direction, the upstream and downstream segments, along with information about the total stream network.<\/li>\n
  2. River Nodes<\/a>: The node points define the start\/end of a stream segment.<\/li>\n
  3. Basins<\/a>: The drainage catchment area for each streamline segment.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2975533,"id":2975533,"title":"HydroSHEDSFeature","filename":"HydroSHEDSFeature.png","filesize":155888,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDSFeature.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/water\/hydrosheds-2-0-now-available-for-the-americas-in-the-living-atlas\/hydroshedsfeature","alt":"Streams, basins, and nodes","author":"7841","description":"","caption":"","name":"hydroshedsfeature","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2974697,"date":"2026-07-08 00:44:42","modified":"2026-07-08 00:44:46","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":759,"height":274,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDSFeature-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDSFeature.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":168,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDSFeature.png","medium_large-width":759,"medium_large-height":274,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDSFeature.png","large-width":759,"large-height":274,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDSFeature.png","1536x1536-width":759,"1536x1536-height":274,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDSFeature.png","2048x2048-width":759,"2048x2048-height":274,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDSFeature.png","card_image-width":759,"card_image-height":274,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDSFeature.png","wide_image-width":759,"wide_image-height":274}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

    Working with HydroSHEDS 2.0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    There are over 20 million river segments in this database, which means it is an incredibly data-dense set of layers. To improve performance, the streamlines are broken into a series of layers based on the Strahler stream order, which defines how many other upstream segments flow into the river. The higher the number, the larger and more complex the river network. By zooming into the layer, additional detail is revealed for smaller stream orders. Nodes and basins are also constrained to display features only at larger scales.<\/p>\n

    Since nodes, basins, and streamlines are all related, each feature has a unique identifier that can be used to associate one with another.<\/p>\n

    Because of the size of this dataset, exporting from the service is limited to 2,000 features. Bulk downloads are available from HydroSHEDS.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Exploring HydroSHEDS 2.0
    \n<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    Let\u2019s take a look at some of the details revealed by HydroSHEDS 2.0.<\/p>\n

    The mighty Amazon River and the vast network of stream within its drainage basin<\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2975540,"id":2975540,"title":"HydroSHEDS_Amazon","filename":"HydroSHEDS_Amazon.jpg","filesize":1922390,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_Amazon.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/water\/hydrosheds-2-0-now-available-for-the-americas-in-the-living-atlas\/hydrosheds_amazon","alt":"Amazon Basin","author":"7841","description":"","caption":"","name":"hydrosheds_amazon","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2974697,"date":"2026-07-08 00:51:51","modified":"2026-07-08 00:52:02","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_Amazon-213x200.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_Amazon.jpg","medium-width":464,"medium-height":232,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_Amazon.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":384,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_Amazon.jpg","large-width":1920,"large-height":960,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_Amazon-1536x768.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":768,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_Amazon.jpg","2048x2048-width":2000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_Amazon-826x413.jpg","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":413,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_Amazon-1920x960.jpg","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":960}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_Amazon.jpg"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

    Moving to North America, another complex river network can be seen across the mountain ranges in British Columbia<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2975538,"id":2975538,"title":"HydroSHEDS_BritishColumbia","filename":"HydroSHEDS_BritishColumbia-scaled.png","filesize":8713909,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_BritishColumbia-scaled.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/water\/hydrosheds-2-0-now-available-for-the-americas-in-the-living-atlas\/hydrosheds_britishcolumbia","alt":"British Columbia","author":"7841","description":"","caption":"","name":"hydrosheds_britishcolumbia","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2974697,"date":"2026-07-08 00:50:31","modified":"2026-07-08 00:52:29","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2560,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_BritishColumbia-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_BritishColumbia-scaled.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":232,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_BritishColumbia-scaled.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":384,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_BritishColumbia-scaled.png","large-width":1920,"large-height":960,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_BritishColumbia-1536x768.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":768,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_BritishColumbia-2048x1024.png","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1024,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_BritishColumbia-826x413.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":413,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_BritishColumbia-1920x960.png","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":960}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_BritishColumbia-scaled.png"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

    Using a dark basemap also helps to reveal the subtle detail of the data, as we see here around Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2975541,"id":2975541,"title":"HydroSHEDS_ArgentinaChileUruguay","filename":"HydroSHEDS_ArgentinaChileUruguay.png","filesize":956579,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_ArgentinaChileUruguay.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/water\/hydrosheds-2-0-now-available-for-the-americas-in-the-living-atlas\/hydrosheds_argentinachileuruguay","alt":"South America","author":"7841","description":"","caption":"","name":"hydrosheds_argentinachileuruguay","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2974697,"date":"2026-07-08 00:51:54","modified":"2026-07-08 00:53:06","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1600,"height":800,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_ArgentinaChileUruguay-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_ArgentinaChileUruguay.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":232,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_ArgentinaChileUruguay.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":384,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_ArgentinaChileUruguay.png","large-width":1600,"large-height":800,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_ArgentinaChileUruguay-1536x768.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":768,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_ArgentinaChileUruguay.png","2048x2048-width":1600,"2048x2048-height":800,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_ArgentinaChileUruguay-826x413.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":413,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_ArgentinaChileUruguay.png","wide_image-width":1600,"wide_image-height":800}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_ArgentinaChileUruguay.png"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

    Applying arrow styles helps to delineate the flow direction for each river and stream.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2975539,"id":2975539,"title":"HydroSHEDS_PanamaArrows","filename":"HydroSHEDS_PanamaArrows.png","filesize":615743,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_PanamaArrows.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/water\/hydrosheds-2-0-now-available-for-the-americas-in-the-living-atlas\/hydrosheds_panamaarrows","alt":"Flow direction in Panama","author":"7841","description":"","caption":"","name":"hydrosheds_panamaarrows","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2974697,"date":"2026-07-08 00:51:47","modified":"2026-07-08 00:53:38","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1600,"height":800,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_PanamaArrows-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_PanamaArrows.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":232,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_PanamaArrows.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":384,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_PanamaArrows.png","large-width":1600,"large-height":800,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_PanamaArrows-1536x768.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":768,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_PanamaArrows.png","2048x2048-width":1600,"2048x2048-height":800,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_PanamaArrows-826x413.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":413,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_PanamaArrows.png","wide_image-width":1600,"wide_image-height":800}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HydroSHEDS_PanamaArrows.png"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

    Coming Soon!<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    In addition to these detailed feature layers, raster layers used to derive the stream networks will be made available as layers optimized for analysis in ArcGIS Online. Be sure to follow Living Atlas in the Esri Community<\/a> to get updates. Find more information on HydroSHEDS 2.0 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n"}],"related_articles":[{"ID":1909452,"post_author":"8942","post_date":"2023-04-28 08:00:03","post_date_gmt":"2023-04-28 15:00:03","post_content":"","post_title":"The Most Detailed Map of US Waters That You\u2019ve Ever Seen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-most-detailed-map-of-us-waters-that-youve-ever-seen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-07-17 13:43:44","post_modified_gmt":"2026-07-17 20:43:44","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=1909452","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"4","filter":"raw"},{"ID":2596252,"post_author":"8492","post_date":"2024-11-26 05:00:29","post_date_gmt":"2024-11-26 13:00:29","post_content":"","post_title":"Environment Map for 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