HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080745620
Bassin de Río Apa
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 5 administrative regions across 2 countries : Bela Vista, Caracol, Concepción, Porto Murtinho, San Carlos
Sub-basin area
2 642,3km²
Upstream area
11 287,7km²
Discharge
97,68m³/s
Mean elev.
177m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Caracol1485 km²
- Bassin de Río Apa805 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- San CarlosConcepción · Paraguay1243.4 km²47.2% of basin
- 836.0 km²31.7% of basin
- ConcepciónConcepción · Paraguay555.7 km²21.1% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Reserva de Biosfera del Cerrado del Rio Apa
IUCN Not ReportedBiosphere Reserve-National
1228.61 km² overlap
Paso Bravo
IUCN IINational Park
945.72 km² overlap
Tagatiya Mi
IUCN IVNatural Reserve
92.21 km² overlap
Arrecife
IUCN IVNatural Reserve
51.36 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
764 distinct species · 8 193 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Bassin de Río Apa : 26 espèces reliées par 40 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
24,0°C
Annual rain
1 363mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,18
Runoff
194mm/an
PET
1 658mm
AET
1 153mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
162cm
Forest
40%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)