HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080120180
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 2 administrative regions : Rest of Region 10, Rest of Region 8
Sub-basin area
80,4km²
Upstream area
56 036,3km²
Discharge
1 539,55m³/s
Mean elev.
80m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Essequibo River635 km²
- Bassin de Siparuni River60 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 43.1 km²53.8% of basin
- 37.0 km²46.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
55 distinct species · 66 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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
2 524mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,36
Runoff
1 626mm/an
PET
1 605mm
AET
1 505mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
24cm
Forest
100%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)