HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080099060
Bassin de Essequibo River
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 : Makouria River, Rest of Region 7
Sub-basin area
274,7km²
Upstream area
69 650,4km²
Discharge
1 863,83m³/s
Mean elev.
44m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Essequibo River1197 km²
- Bassin · #6080101960218 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 162.5 km²59.4% of basin
- 97.2 km²35.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
483 distinct species · 1 307 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Essequibo River : 29 espèces reliées par 41 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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
2 161mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,33
Runoff
1 030mm/an
PET
1 437mm
AET
1 385mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
56cm
Forest
88%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)