HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080857440
Bassin de Kourou
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 1 administrative regions : Tchologo
Sub-basin area
580,7km²
Upstream area
580,9km²
Discharge
1,36m³/s
Mean elev.
268m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 578.3 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Comoe National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
330.71 km² overlap
Comoé National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
310.82 km² overlap
Parc national de la Comoé
IUCN IINational Park
293.95 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 5 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,1°C
Annual rain
1 099mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
74mm/an
PET
1 827mm
AET
929mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
234cm
Forest
96%
Crops
20%
Urban
0%
Protected
57%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)