HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080120300
Bassin du Sinnamary
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 : Kourou, Saint-Elie
Sub-basin area
1 231,7km²
Upstream area
2 794,3km²
Discharge
160,31m³/s
Mean elev.
91m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,5°C
Annual rain
3 201mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,52
Runoff
1 811mm/an
PET
1 522mm
AET
1 409mm
Mean slope
3,7°
Water table
101cm
Forest
73%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)