HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080124740
Bassin de Suriname
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 : Boven Suriname, Bven Saramacca, Sarakreek
Sub-basin area
797,1km²
Upstream area
8 572,8km²
Discharge
280,56m³/s
Mean elev.
79m
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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
2 353mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,32
Runoff
961mm/an
PET
1 605mm
AET
1 459mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
43cm
Forest
72%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)