HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080005530
Bassin de la Mana
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 : Awala-Yalimapo, Mana, Saint-Laurent (du Maroni)
Sub-basin area
783,6km²
Upstream area
12 200,8km²
Discharge
479,11m³/s
Mean elev.
34m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Crique Portal715 km²
- Bassin de la Mana657 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 742.8 km²95.2% of basin
- 35.5 km²4.5% of basin
- 1.8 km²0.2% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Guyane
IUCN VRegional Nature Park
643.63 km² overlap
Basse-Mana
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
97.03 km² overlap
Sables Blancs De Mana
IUCN IVBiotope Protection Order
38.57 km² overlap
L\'Amana
IUCN IVNational Nature Reserve
17.88 km² overlap
Kanawa
IUCN IVLand acquired by Conservatoire du Littoral (national seaside and lakeside conservancy)
10.49 km² overlap
Land acquired by Conservatoire du Littoral (national seaside and lakeside conservancy)
1.59 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 540 distinct species · 6 365 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 18 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 la Mana : 15 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 17 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 8.9%, 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
2 223mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,30
Runoff
1 014mm/an
PET
1 551mm
AET
1 368mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
53cm
Forest
93%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
84%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)