HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080104460
Bassin de Demerara
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 6 administrative regions : Coomaka Lands, Ituni, Linden, Mabura Hills, Makouria River +1
Sub-basin area
1 468,3km²
Upstream area
5 022,9km²
Discharge
208,32m³/s
Mean elev.
66m
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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
2 551mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,39
Runoff
1 173mm/an
PET
1 547mm
AET
1 514mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
108cm
Forest
97%
Crops
5%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)