HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080779990
Bassin de Río Carapa
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 : Corpus Christi, General Francisco C. Alvarez, Marechal Cândido Rondon, Paranhos, Salto del Guairá +2
Sub-basin area
2 675,8km²
Upstream area
2 675,8km²
Discharge
43,99m³/s
Mean elev.
347m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1686.9 km²63.2% of basin
- 929.5 km²34.8% of basin
- 28.2 km²1.1% of basin
- 21.0 km²0.8% of basin
- 3.9 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
8 intersecting protected areas
Reserva de la Biosfera Itaipu
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
2656.18 km² overlap
Carapa
IUCN IVNatural Reserve
43.78 km² overlap
Reserva de la Biosfera Bosque Mbaracayu
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
5.84 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
1.29 km² overlap
Environmental Protection Area
1.09 km² overlap
Huasipungo
IUCN IINatural Reserve
0.78 km² overlap
Pirajuí
IUCN Not ReportedIndigenous Area
0.73 km² overlap
Del Bosque Mbaracayú
IUCN IVNatural Reserve
0.47 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
639 distinct species · 4 901 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Carapa : 28 espèces + 6 bulles famille, 31 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 5.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 6 bulles regroupent des espèces visuellement absorbées par famille (≥3 espèces visibles).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,3°C
Annual rain
1 633mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
563mm/an
PET
1 565mm
AET
1 370mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
183cm
Forest
30%
Crops
34%
Urban
1%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)