HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080163060
Bassin de Oronoque
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
17,7km²
Upstream area
3 875,6km²
Discharge
53m³/s
Mean elev.
224m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #60801638101001 km²
- Bassin de Oronoque594 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 17.6 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
26,6°C
Annual rain
1 945mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,12
Runoff
418mm/an
PET
1 711mm
AET
1 275mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
53cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)