HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080134960
Bassin de Jai Kriek
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 : Boven Suriname, Tapanahony
Sub-basin area
629,4km²
Upstream area
2 094,3km²
Discharge
58,62m³/s
Mean elev.
160m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Jai Kriek283 km²
- Bassin de Jai Kriek142 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 608.0 km²97.0% of basin
- 18.6 km²3.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,2°C
Annual rain
2 543mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,37
Runoff
905mm/an
PET
1 605mm
AET
1 456mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
52cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)