HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080814340
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 5 administrative regions across 2 countries : Candelaria, Hohenau, Nueva Alborada, San Ignacio, Trinidad
Sub-basin area
228,1km²
Upstream area
932 571,6km²
Discharge
12 905,83m³/s
Mean elev.
136m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Paraná3716 km²
- Bassin de Capiibari978 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 107.5 km²47.2% of basin
- 88.5 km²38.8% of basin
- 31.0 km²13.6% of basin
- 0.8 km²0.3% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Teyú Cuare
IUCN IIProvincial Park
0.79 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 400 distinct species · 17 867 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 26 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 : 21 espèces reliées par 25 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
21,0°C
Annual rain
1 735mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
802mm/an
PET
1 586mm
AET
1 368mm
Mean slope
3,3°
Water table
194cm
Forest
45%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)