HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080106960
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 4 administrative regions : Coomaka Lands, Makouria River, Rest of Region 10, Rest of Region 7
Sub-basin area
488,7km²
Upstream area
67 784,3km²
Discharge
2 308,41m³/s
Mean elev.
67m
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°
26,3°C
Annual rain
2 665mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,43
Runoff
1 342mm/an
PET
1 528mm
AET
1 505mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
115cm
Forest
98%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)