HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080005800
Bassin de la Comté
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 7 administrative regions : Kourou, Matoury, Montsinéry-Tonnégrande, Roura, Régina (-Kaw) +2
Sub-basin area
3 616km²
Upstream area
3 616km²
Discharge
240,69m³/s
Mean elev.
78m
Administrative coverage
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 3404.8 km²94.6% of basin
- 62.8 km²1.7% of basin
- 42.6 km²1.2% of basin
- 33.1 km²0.9% of basin
- 27.7 km²0.8% of basin
- 14.8 km²0.4% of basin
- 14.3 km²0.4% of basin
12 intersecting protected areas
Guyane
IUCN VRegional Nature Park
3175.35 km² overlap
Nouragues
IUCN IVNational Nature Reserve
275.70 km² overlap
Marais De Kaw
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
129.03 km² overlap
Montagne De Kaw
IUCN IVBiotope Protection Order
75.86 km² overlap
Marais De Kaw-Roura
IUCN IVNational Nature Reserve
25.11 km² overlap
Land acquired by Conservatoire du Littoral (national seaside and lakeside conservancy)
24.66 km² overlap
Trésor
IUCN IVRegional Nature Reserve
24.65 km² overlap
Rive Droite Du Mahury
IUCN IVLand acquired by Conservatoire du Littoral (national seaside and lakeside conservancy)
16.69 km² overlap
Habitation Vidal
IUCN IVLand acquired by Conservatoire du Littoral (national seaside and lakeside conservancy)
4.94 km² overlap
3 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Grand Matoury
IUCN IVBiotope Protection Order
1.73 km² overlap
Mont Grand Matoury
IUCN IVNational Nature Reserve
1.59 km² overlap
Le Mont Mahury
IUCN IVLand acquired by Conservatoire du Littoral (national seaside and lakeside conservancy)
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 735 distinct species · 101 094 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 10 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 Comté : 8 espèces reliées par 7 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 15.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
25,6°C
Annual rain
3 626mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,58
Runoff
2 103mm/an
PET
1 534mm
AET
1 445mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
105cm
Forest
93%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
96%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)