HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080146940
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 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : Coeroeni, East Bank Berbice
Sub-basin area
40,2km²
Upstream area
16 686,8km²
Discharge
192,65m³/s
Mean elev.
171m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Curuni1236 km²
- Bassin de Curuni473 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 27.8 km²69.5% of basin
- 12.2 km²30.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
22 distinct species · 45 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 5 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 Courantyne : 4 espèces reliées par 4 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 40.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (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°
26,6°C
Annual rain
2 000mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,16
Runoff
473mm/an
PET
1 670mm
AET
1 309mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
134cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)