HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080131170
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 8, Rest of Region 9
Sub-basin area
334,2km²
Upstream area
334,2km²
Discharge
8,23m³/s
Mean elev.
123m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 180.4 km²54.2% of basin
- 152.3 km²45.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Managed Resource Use Area
283.86 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
304 distinct species · 1 174 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 11 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Essequibo River : 9 espèces reliées par 11 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 20.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,8°C
Annual rain
2 056mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,20
Runoff
776mm/an
PET
1 639mm
AET
1 333mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
95cm
Forest
100%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
85%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)