HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080749420
Bassin de Río Pilcomayo
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 3 administrative regions across 3 countries : Doctor Pedro P. Peña, Gran Chaco, Rivadavia
Sub-basin area
2 030,4km²
Upstream area
88 101,1km²
Discharge
217,77m³/s
Mean elev.
320m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #60807330101165 km²
- Bassin de Río Pilcomayo50 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1463.7 km²72.3% of basin
- 391.2 km²19.3% of basin
- 170.2 km²8.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
244 distinct species · 705 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Pilcomayo : 36 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 4.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
23,3°C
Annual rain
675mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,61
Runoff
102mm/an
PET
1 747mm
AET
570mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
88cm
Forest
72%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)