HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080811570
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 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : Bermejo, Humaitá
Sub-basin area
87,7km²
Upstream area
1 135 991,4km²
Discharge
5 496,87m³/s
Mean elev.
55m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río de Oro3142 km²
- Bassin de Río Paraguay26 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 49.0 km²56.0% of basin
- 38.5 km²44.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Humedales Chaco
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
44.46 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
45 distinct species · 83 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 9 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 : 9 espèces + 0 bulles famille, 5 interactions GloBI documentées sur 2 types (connectance 13.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,0°C
Annual rain
1 314mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,14
Runoff
247mm/an
PET
1 522mm
AET
1 112mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
18cm
Forest
73%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)