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
Species present
Ecological tissue
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Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
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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)