HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080005660
Bassin du Sinnamary
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 4 administrative regions : Iracoubo, Kourou, Saint-Elie, Sinnamary
Sub-basin area
813,6km²
Upstream area
6 549,3km²
Discharge
318,59m³/s
Mean elev.
58m
Administrative coverage
Species present
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°
25,8°C
Annual rain
2 845mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,47
Runoff
1 534mm/an
PET
1 506mm
AET
1 357mm
Mean slope
3,4°
Water table
96cm
Forest
76%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
11%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)