HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080139400
Bassin de Courantyne
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 across 2 countries : Coeroeni, East Bank Berbice, Kabalebo
Sub-basin area
800,8km²
Upstream area
45 224,8km²
Discharge
615,74m³/s
Mean elev.
133m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Courantyne1633 km²
- Bassin de Lucie rivier920 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 546.6 km²68.6% of basin
- 212.8 km²26.7% of basin
- 37.8 km²4.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 12 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°
26,8°C
Annual rain
1 997mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,16
Runoff
516mm/an
PET
1 668mm
AET
1 308mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
68cm
Forest
96%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)