HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080182580
Bassin de Rio Poana
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 across 2 countries : East Bank Berbice, Oriximiná
Sub-basin area
1 960,3km²
Upstream area
1 960,6km²
Discharge
32,4m³/s
Mean elev.
279m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1938.2 km²99.3% of basin
- 13.5 km²0.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ecological Station
1946.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 22 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
2 036mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,16
Runoff
541mm/an
PET
1 717mm
AET
1 318mm
Mean slope
4,8°
Water table
94cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)