HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080151890
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
1 217km²
Upstream area
14 557km²
Discharge
195,87m³/s
Mean elev.
231m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Oronoque718 km²
- Bassin de Upper-Corentyne560 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1211.6 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
11 distinct species · 19 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 954mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,14
Runoff
412mm/an
PET
1 690mm
AET
1 282mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
80cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)