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
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
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)