HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080812230
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 12 administrative regions across 2 countries : Alto Verá, Bella Vista, Cainguás, Capitán Meza, Edelira +7
Sub-basin area
3 716,4km²
Upstream area
931 365,9km²
Discharge
12 857,27m³/s
Mean elev.
221m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Pirayu1224 km²
- Bassin de Arroyo Garuhapé1021 km²
12 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 978.8 km²26.4% of basin
- 616.9 km²16.6% of basin
- 583.3 km²15.7% of basin
- 447.4 km²12.1% of basin
- 317.8 km²8.6% of basin
- 283.8 km²7.6% of basin
- 283.3 km²7.6% of basin
- 94.3 km²2.5% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Valle del Arroyo Cuña-Pirú
IUCN IIProvincial Park
88.80 km² overlap
Cuña Pirú
IUCN Not ReportedPrivate Reserve
54.91 km² overlap
San Rafael
IUCN IINational Park Reservations
44.90 km² overlap
Provincial Park
9.18 km² overlap
Corpus
IUCN VIIchthyic Reserve
8.35 km² overlap
El Paraíso
IUCN VIPrivate Reserve
2.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 514 distinct species · 38 320 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 Paraná : 22 espèces reliées par 26 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
20,6°C
Annual rain
1 634mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
725mm/an
PET
1 558mm
AET
1 319mm
Mean slope
3,5°
Water table
235cm
Forest
58%
Crops
29%
Urban
1%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)