HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080790160
Bassin de Río Paraguay
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 8 administrative regions across 2 countries : Asunción, Fernando de la Mora, Limpio, Luque, Mariano Roque Alonso +3
Sub-basin area
551km²
Upstream area
789 174,2km²
Discharge
4 158,23m³/s
Mean elev.
80m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Confuso269 km²
- Bassin de Río Paraguay97 km²
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 275.2 km²50.1% of basin
- 104.9 km²19.1% of basin
- 57.9 km²10.5% of basin
- 46.1 km²8.4% of basin
- 43.1 km²7.8% of basin
- 16.3 km²3.0% of basin
- 4.4 km²0.8% of basin
- 2.0 km²0.4% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Managed Resource Reserve
79.44 km² overlap
Ecological Reserve
6.05 km² overlap
Ñuguazu
IUCN IVManaged Resource Reserve
2.89 km² overlap
Parque Guasu Metropolitano
IUCN IVEcological Reserve
1.25 km² overlap
Natural Reserve
0.33 km² overlap
Arroyo Yukyry
IUCN VProtected Landscape
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 520 distinct species · 282 524 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 Paraguay : 26 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) + 2 bulles famille, 20 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 5.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 2 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°
23,2°C
Annual rain
1 372mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,15
Runoff
248mm/an
PET
1 614mm
AET
1 161mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
59cm
Forest
44%
Crops
1%
Urban
42%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)