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
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
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)