HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080143300
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 1 administrative regions : Rest of Region 9
Sub-basin area
458,3km²
Upstream area
19 270,1km²
Discharge
549,56m³/s
Mean elev.
124m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
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Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
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Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,0°C
Annual rain
1 836mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
755mm/an
PET
1 672mm
AET
1 240mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
58cm
Forest
99%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)