HydroLAKES lake · #87
Buenos Aires
Surface area
1 763,81km²
Avg depth
400m
Volume
705 524km³
Shoreline
706,5km
Administrative coverage
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- General CarreraAysén del General Ibañez del Cam · Chile942.28 km²53.3% of lake
- Lago Buenos AiresSanta Cruz · Argentina826.09 km²46.7% of lake
3 intersecting protected areas
Laguna San Rafael (RB)
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
364.40 km² overlap
Patagonia
IUCN Not ReportedNational Park
0.14 km² overlap
Capilla de Mármol
IUCN Not ReportedNature Sanctuary
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · HydroLAKES × GADM × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
312 distinct species · 16 918 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 Buenos Aires : 31 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 48 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Lake statistics (HydroLAKES)
Surface
1 763,81km²
Avg depth
400,0m
Volume
705 524,000km³
Watershed
14 861km²
Shoreline
706,5km
Shore dev. idx
4,75
Residence time
54 673days
Elevation
202m
HydroLAKES v1.0 (Messager et al. 2016) · 1.4M lacs ≥ 0.1 km² mondialement.