HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080167170
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 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : East Bank Berbice, Oriximiná
Sub-basin area
1 266,2km²
Upstream area
1 604,7km²
Discharge
22,41m³/s
Mean elev.
254m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Oronoque197 km²
- Bassin · #6080174200141 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1233.8 km²97.9% of basin
- 26.8 km²2.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ecological Station
12.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
24 distinct species · 31 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°
26,5°C
Annual rain
1 971mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,13
Runoff
469mm/an
PET
1 716mm
AET
1 288mm
Mean slope
3,4°
Water table
75cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)