HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080119410
Bassin de Potaro 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 2 administrative regions : Chenapau River, Rest of Region 8
Sub-basin area
58,2km²
Upstream area
1 488,9km²
Discharge
84,39m³/s
Mean elev.
634m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Potaro River882 km²
- Bassin de Potaro River549 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 55.9 km²96.4% of basin
- 2.1 km²3.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kaieteur National Park
IUCN VIManaged Resource Use Area
0.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
229 distinct species · 839 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 14 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 Potaro River : 11 espèces reliées par 16 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 13.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
23,4°C
Annual rain
2 588mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,41
Runoff
1 778mm/an
PET
1 525mm
AET
1 453mm
Mean slope
8,2°
Water table
336cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)