HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080806580
Bassin de Río Paraná
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 4 administrative regions across 2 countries : Carlos Antonio López, Libertador General San Martín, Montecarlo, San Rafael del Paraná
Sub-basin area
1 313,5km²
Upstream area
922 593,2km²
Discharge
12 597,69m³/s
Mean elev.
252m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Arroyo Piray Guazú2142 km²
- Bassin de Río Paraná190 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 512.6 km²39.1% of basin
- 466.4 km²35.6% of basin
- 328.1 km²25.0% of basin
- 4.1 km²0.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Yrenda
IUCN IVNatural Reserve
26.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
891 distinct species · 5 266 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Paraná : 30 espèces + 2 bulles famille, 25 interactions GloBI documentées sur 2 types (connectance 5.0%, 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°
20,0°C
Annual rain
1 609mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,01
Runoff
788mm/an
PET
1 585mm
AET
1 304mm
Mean slope
4,0°
Water table
220cm
Forest
66%
Crops
37%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)