HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080110350
Bassin de Rivière Balaté
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 across 2 countries : Albina, Saint-Laurent (du Maroni)
Sub-basin area
112km²
Upstream area
66 072,9km²
Discharge
1 827,39m³/s
Mean elev.
19m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 56.4 km²50.6% of basin
- 55.1 km²49.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 251 distinct species · 3 475 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 21 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 Rivière Balaté : 18 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 16 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
26,5°C
Annual rain
2 484mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,37
Runoff
985mm/an
PET
1 566mm
AET
1 460mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
48cm
Forest
51%
Crops
0%
Urban
17%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)