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
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°
26,1°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)