HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080147040
Bassin de Upper-Corentyne
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 : East Bank Berbice
Sub-basin area
409,5km²
Upstream area
16 054,1km²
Discharge
211,63m³/s
Mean elev.
220m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Upper-Corentyne1217 km²
- Bassin de Upper-Corentyne1088 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 407.7 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
1 969mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,15
Runoff
451mm/an
PET
1 669mm
AET
1 294mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
108cm
Forest
97%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)