HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080238870
Bassin de Rio Cuiuni
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 : Barcelos
Sub-basin area
569,3km²
Upstream area
1 882,2km²
Discharge
112,98m³/s
Mean elev.
67m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Cuiuni467 km²
- Bassin de Rio Cuiuni277 km²
2 intersecting protected areas
Extractive Reserve
5.21 km² overlap
Rio Negro
IUCN IbWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
4.15 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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 838mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,41
Runoff
1 754mm/an
PET
1 669mm
AET
1 665mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
4cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)