HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080153650
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 2 administrative regions : East Bank Berbice, Rest of Region 9
Sub-basin area
1 000,6km²
Upstream area
16 324,1km²
Discharge
480,19m³/s
Mean elev.
261m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Essequibo River1268 km²
- Bassin de Essequibo River394 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 919.0 km²92.3% of basin
- 77.1 km²7.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 7 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°
26,3°C
Annual rain
1 815mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
775mm/an
PET
1 672mm
AET
1 228mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
80cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)