HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080178690
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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : East Bank Berbice, Oriximiná, Rest of Region 9
Sub-basin area
298,1km²
Upstream area
298,3km²
Discharge
7,02m³/s
Mean elev.
342m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 282.1 km²95.1% of basin
- 9.5 km²3.2% of basin
- 5.2 km²1.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Managed Resource Use Area
285.01 km² overlap
Ecological Station
9.49 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
46 distinct species · 85 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°
26,0°C
Annual rain
1 971mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,15
Runoff
740mm/an
PET
1 680mm
AET
1 285mm
Mean slope
6,0°
Water table
240cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)