HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080125410
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
163,2km²
Upstream area
48 395,6km²
Discharge
1 217,78m³/s
Mean elev.
104m
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 266mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,28
Runoff
1 104mm/an
PET
1 627mm
AET
1 419mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
64cm
Forest
98%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
60%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)