HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080119730
Bassin de la Mana
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 : Mana, Saint-Laurent (du Maroni)
Sub-basin area
39,4km²
Upstream area
7 367km²
Discharge
312,4m³/s
Mean elev.
66m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rivière Arouani1667 km²
- Bassin de la Mana610 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 29.4 km²74.8% of basin
- 9.9 km²25.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Lucifer Dekou Dekou
IUCN IbForest Integral Biological Reserve
33.34 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
26,1°C
Annual rain
2 550mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,39
Runoff
1 181mm/an
PET
1 560mm
AET
1 467mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
40cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
81%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)