HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080818320
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 2 administrative regions : Capital, Primero de Mayo
Sub-basin area
61,7km²
Upstream area
2 131 808km²
Discharge
18 624,32m³/s
Mean elev.
54m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Paraná119 km²
- Bassin de Río Paraná41 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Capital61.3 km²99.5% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Humedales Chaco
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
0.38 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
477 distinct species · 1 497 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 : 38 espèces reliées par 54 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.0%, 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°
21,6°C
Annual rain
1 266mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,16
Runoff
239mm/an
PET
1 514mm
AET
1 072mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
64cm
Forest
5%
Crops
3%
Urban
42%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)