HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080173460
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
564,5km²
Upstream area
4 026km²
Discharge
116,16m³/s
Mean elev.
306m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Essequibo River233 km²
- Bassin de Essequibo River158 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 555.3 km²98.8% of basin
- 6.7 km²1.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Managed Resource Use Area
454.54 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
132 distinct species · 247 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 10 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 Essequibo River : 9 espèces reliées par 7 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 15.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
1 904mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,11
Runoff
731mm/an
PET
1 686mm
AET
1 261mm
Mean slope
4,8°
Water table
152cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
82%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)