HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080161020
Bassin de Rio Oiapoque
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 across 2 countries : Camopi, Oiapoque
Sub-basin area
486,6km²
Upstream area
3 406,6km²
Discharge
103,73m³/s
Mean elev.
146m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Tangarapé623 km²
- Bassin de Rio Oiapoque534 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 285.6 km²59.0% of basin
- 198.9 km²41.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Guyane (Parc Amazonien)
IUCN IINational Park - Core Area
228.45 km² overlap
Park
190.60 km² overlap
National Park - Buffer zone/Area of adhesion
63.69 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
224 distinct species · 2 205 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 22 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Rio Oiapoque : 18 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 23 interactions GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 8.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
25,5°C
Annual rain
2 436mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,33
Runoff
1 012mm/an
PET
1 626mm
AET
1 393mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
49cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)