HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080005720
Bassin du 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 6 administrative regions : Kourou, Macouria (-Tonate), Montsinéry-Tonnégrande, Roura, Saint-Elie +1
Sub-basin area
1 807,2km²
Upstream area
1 807,2km²
Discharge
100,3m³/s
Mean elev.
63m
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°
25,7°C
Annual rain
3 210mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,53
Runoff
1 843mm/an
PET
1 507mm
AET
1 380mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
88cm
Forest
86%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)