HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080869670
Bassin de Río Salado
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 : La Capital, Las Colonias, San Jerónimo
Sub-basin area
1 821,9km²
Upstream area
210 368,1km²
Discharge
431,57m³/s
Mean elev.
28m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Salado1640 km²
- Bassin de Arroyo Cululú350 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 932.4 km²51.2% of basin
- 751.2 km²41.3% of basin
- 136.8 km²7.5% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Delta del Paraná
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
17.47 km² overlap
Granja Esperanza
IUCN VIUniversity Resource Reserve
0.53 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 408 distinct species · 170 056 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Salado : 32 espèces reliées par 41 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 6.5%, 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°
18,6°C
Annual rain
962mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
152mm/an
PET
1 448mm
AET
815mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
19cm
Forest
17%
Crops
49%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)