HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080757990
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 2 countries : Doctor Pedro P. Peña, Ramón Lista, Rivadavia
Sub-basin area
1 500,3km²
Upstream area
90 450,3km²
Discharge
209,42m³/s
Mean elev.
234m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Pilcomayo2030 km²
- Bassin · #6080749300849 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 579.3 km²38.7% of basin
- Ramón ListaFormosa · Argentina502.8 km²33.6% of basin
- 414.5 km²27.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bañado la Estrella
IUCN Not ReportedProvincial Nature Reserve
132.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
265 distinct species · 1 058 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°
23,0°C
Annual rain
469mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
21mm/an
PET
1 750mm
AET
395mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
16cm
Forest
72%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)