HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080179640
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 1 administrative regions : Rest of Region 9
Sub-basin area
333,5km²
Upstream area
1 720,4km²
Discharge
50,97m³/s
Mean elev.
281m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Essequibo River752 km²
- Bassin de Sipu River635 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 332.0 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Managed Resource Use Area
331.97 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 6 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°
26,3°C
Annual rain
1 947mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,13
Runoff
855mm/an
PET
1 690mm
AET
1 281mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
104cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)