HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080104590
Bassin de Río Mazaruní
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 : Madhia + Kurubrong River + Mona, Rest of Region 7
Sub-basin area
895,7km²
Upstream area
28 110,6km²
Discharge
1 253,19m³/s
Mean elev.
115m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Mazaruní351 km²
- Bassin de Puruni River13 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 886.1 km²99.4% of basin
- 5.7 km²0.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
68 distinct species · 97 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,0°C
Annual rain
2 536mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,41
Runoff
1 482mm/an
PET
1 501mm
AET
1 460mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
98cm
Forest
96%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)