HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080150940
Bassin de Awalapa
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 : Boven Suriname, Coeroeni, Tapanahony
Sub-basin area
1 214,1km²
Upstream area
1 214,4km²
Discharge
23,84m³/s
Mean elev.
302m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1150.8 km²95.2% of basin
- 41.7 km²3.5% of basin
- 16.2 km²1.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Central Suriname Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
10.21 km² overlap
Central Suriname
IUCN IINature Reserve
1.31 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
30 distinct species · 33 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°
25,8°C
Annual rain
2 153mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,24
Runoff
646mm/an
PET
1 635mm
AET
1 325mm
Mean slope
5,1°
Water table
158cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)