HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080814820
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 5 administrative regions across 2 countries : Bermejo, General José Eduvigis Díaz, Humaitá, Paso de Patria, San Cosme
Sub-basin area
240,7km²
Upstream area
1 136 980,4km²
Discharge
5 493,01m³/s
Mean elev.
54m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 4 basins
- Bassin de Río Grande393 km²
- Bassin de Río Paraguay155 km²
- Bassin de Río Paraguay136 km²
- Bassin · #60800408703 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 120.8 km²50.3% of basin
- 79.8 km²33.2% of basin
- 21.5 km²9.0% of basin
- 17.4 km²7.2% of basin
- 0.8 km²0.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Humedales Chaco
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
75.33 km² overlap
Isla Del Cerrito
IUCN IVProvincial Park
45.38 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
551 distinct species · 7 730 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 : 32 espèces reliées par 27 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 4.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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 295mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,15
Runoff
254mm/an
PET
1 518mm
AET
1 097mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
14cm
Forest
56%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)