HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080774660
Bassin de Río Piratiy
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 6 administrative regions across 2 countries : Corpus Christi, General Francisco C. Alvarez, Japorã, Mundo Novo, Salto del Guairá +1
Sub-basin area
1 545,5km²
Upstream area
1 545,6km²
Discharge
22,44m³/s
Mean elev.
320m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 899.8 km²58.4% of basin
- 324.0 km²21.0% of basin
- 310.3 km²20.1% of basin
- 4.8 km²0.3% of basin
- 1.8 km²0.1% of basin
- 1.3 km²0.1% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Reserva de la Biosfera Itaipu
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
1531.93 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
5.43 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
2.43 km² overlap
Saltos del Guairá
IUCN IINational Park
1.90 km² overlap
Refugio Biológico Mbaracayú
IUCN IVNatural Reserve
1.88 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
805 distinct species · 13 041 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°
21,6°C
Annual rain
1 622mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
467mm/an
PET
1 559mm
AET
1 363mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
204cm
Forest
15%
Crops
11%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)