HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080005840
Bassin de Rivière de Kaw
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 2 administrative regions : Roura, Régina (-Kaw)
Sub-basin area
1 000km²
Upstream area
1 000,4km²
Discharge
68,71m³/s
Mean elev.
45m
Administrative coverage
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 907.3 km²91.1% of basin
- 88.3 km²8.9% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Marais De Kaw
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
732.52 km² overlap
Marais De Kaw-Roura
IUCN IVNational Nature Reserve
691.35 km² overlap
Montagne De Kaw
IUCN IVBiotope Protection Order
95.53 km² overlap
Guyane
IUCN VRegional Nature Park
90.80 km² overlap
Land acquired by Conservatoire du Littoral (national seaside and lakeside conservancy)
0.01 km² overlap
Trésor
IUCN IVRegional Nature Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 309 distinct species · 31 191 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 Kaw : 23 espèces reliées par 18 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 5.5%, 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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
3 756mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,59
Runoff
2 169mm/an
PET
1 540mm
AET
1 448mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
101cm
Forest
93%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
70%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)