HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080744650
Bassin de Riacho Mosquito
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 7 administrative regions across 2 countries : Doctor Pedro P. Peña, General Eugenio A. Garay, Gran Chaco, La Victoria, Mariscal José Félix Estigarribia +2
Sub-basin area
7 223,3km²
Upstream area
7 224km²
Discharge
19,7m³/s
Mean elev.
151m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1941.0 km²26.9% of basin
- 1863.8 km²25.9% of basin
- 1655.4 km²23.0% of basin
- 1159.4 km²16.1% of basin
- 398.3 km²5.5% of basin
- 180.7 km²2.5% of basin
- 6.2 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
668 distinct species · 10 247 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,5°C
Annual rain
767mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,57
Runoff
16mm/an
PET
1 774mm
AET
647mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
12cm
Forest
61%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)