HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080242380
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
467,3km²
Upstream area
1 035,6km²
Discharge
64,88m³/s
Mean elev.
69m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Cuiuni380 km²
- Bassin de Rio Cuiuni188 km²
2 intersecting protected areas
Extractive Reserve
54.54 km² overlap
Rio Negro
IUCN IbWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
51.76 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 20 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
2 952mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,44
Runoff
1 904mm/an
PET
1 664mm
AET
1 664mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
3cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
12%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)