HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080174740
Bassin de Upper-Corentyne
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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : East Bank Berbice, Oriximiná, Rest of Region 9
Sub-basin area
1 416,3km²
Upstream area
1 416,5km²
Discharge
16,65m³/s
Mean elev.
321m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1110.5 km²78.8% of basin
- 288.7 km²20.5% of basin
- 10.8 km²0.8% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Ecological Station
7.24 km² overlap
Managed Resource Use Area
2.91 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 27 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°
26,1°C
Annual rain
1 940mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,13
Runoff
569mm/an
PET
1 688mm
AET
1 273mm
Mean slope
6,2°
Water table
218cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
11%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)