HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080096930
Bassin de Río Cuyuní
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 : Lower West Demerara, Rest of Region 7
Sub-basin area
256,9km²
Upstream area
256,9km²
Discharge
7,84m³/s
Mean elev.
90m
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°
26,0°C
Annual rain
1 895mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,25
Runoff
963mm/an
PET
1 420mm
AET
1 319mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
96cm
Forest
99%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)