HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080005780
Bassin de Rivière de Tonnégrande
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 5 administrative regions : Kourou, Macouria (-Tonate), Matoury, Montsinéry-Tonnégrande, Roura
Sub-basin area
725,3km²
Upstream area
725,5km²
Discharge
46,32m³/s
Mean elev.
38m
Administrative coverage
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 577.7 km²80.0% of basin
- 64.6 km²8.9% of basin
- 48.0 km²6.6% of basin
- 27.9 km²3.9% of basin
- 3.9 km²0.5% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Guyane
IUCN VRegional Nature Park
26.98 km² overlap
Petit Cayenne
IUCN IVLand acquired by Conservatoire du Littoral (national seaside and lakeside conservancy)
23.13 km² overlap
Grand Matoury
IUCN IVBiotope Protection Order
20.06 km² overlap
Mont Grand Matoury
IUCN IVNational Nature Reserve
19.02 km² overlap
Bagne Des Annamites
IUCN IVLand acquired by Conservatoire du Littoral (national seaside and lakeside conservancy)
2.60 km² overlap
Pointe Liberte
IUCN IVLand acquired by Conservatoire du Littoral (national seaside and lakeside conservancy)
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 997 distinct species · 39 289 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 22 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 Rivière de Tonnégrande : 19 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 16 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
26,1°C
Annual rain
3 404mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,56
Runoff
2 015mm/an
PET
1 505mm
AET
1 385mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
61cm
Forest
81%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)