HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080724710
Bassin de Río Paraguay
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 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : Fuerte Olimpo, Porto Murtinho
Sub-basin area
117km²
Upstream area
546 112,6km²
Discharge
2 671,24m³/s
Mean elev.
87m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Paraguay648 km²
- Bassin de Río Paraguay34 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 110.8 km²95.0% of basin
- 5.8 km²5.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kadiwéu
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
1.83 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,3°C
Annual rain
1 166mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
398mm/an
PET
1 735mm
AET
987mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
16cm
Forest
57%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)