Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080113660

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 3 administrative regions : Madhia + Kurubrong River + Mona, Rest of Region 10, Rest of Region 8

Pfafstetter: 61625001

Sub-basin area

27km²

Upstream area

58 785,4km²

Discharge

1 738,04m³/s

Mean elev.

65m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

Drains into

Receives from 2 basins

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

57 distinct species · 81 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

81 obs · 2 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 64
64–63
64–63
64–63
< 64

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

26,6°C

Annual rain

2 842mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,45

Runoff

1 889mm/an

PET

1 561mm

AET

1 514mm

Mean slope

2,4°

Water table

77cm

Forest

100%

Crops

0%

Urban

0%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)