HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080812510
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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Bermejo, Humaitá, Paso de Patria
Sub-basin area
135,8km²
Upstream area
1 136 583,6km²
Discharge
5 497,8m³/s
Mean elev.
55m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Quia456 km²
- Bassin de Río Paraguay88 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 95.6 km²70.5% of basin
- 20.6 km²15.2% of basin
- 19.4 km²14.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Humedales Chaco
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
15.52 km² overlap
Natural Monument
7.53 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
360 distinct species · 7 264 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 : 25 espèces reliées par 26 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
22,0°C
Annual rain
1 306mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,14
Runoff
249mm/an
PET
1 521mm
AET
1 106mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
17cm
Forest
68%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)