HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080131200
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 3 administrative regions : East Bank Berbice, Rest of Region 8, Rest of Region 9
Sub-basin area
352,9km²
Upstream area
46 896,8km²
Discharge
1 165,65m³/s
Mean elev.
105m
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°
26,9°C
Annual rain
2 028mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,19
Runoff
711mm/an
PET
1 647mm
AET
1 323mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
56cm
Forest
98%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)