| Station: | Plantain Island | Continent: | South America | ||
| River: | Essequibo | Major Basin : | Atlantic Ocean | ||
| Country: | Guyana | Discharge into : | Atlantic Ocean | ||
| Observation Period: | 1965 - 1979 | Total Months: | 144 | ||
| Latitude (dec deg): | 5.85 N | Area (km2): | 66600 | ||
| Longitude (dec deg): | 58.58 W | Elevation (m): | 18 | ||
| Annual Discharge: (m3/s): | 2222.0 | (km3/yr): | 70.1 | ||
| Annual Runoff: (l/s/km2): | 33.4 | (mm/yr): | 1052.6 |
| Mean for Observation Period | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| m3/sec | 1199.3 | 962.8 | 925.6 | 1452.5 | 3132.5 | 4818.3 | 5250.8 | 4067.5 | 2205.0 | 955.6 | 720.5 | 872.2 |
| km3/mo | 3.2 | 2.3 | 2.5 | 3.8 | 8.4 | 12.5 | 14.1 | 10.9 | 5.7 | 2.6 | 1.9 | 2.3 |
| mm/mo | 48.2 | 35.0 | 37.2 | 56.5 | 126.0 | 187.5 | 211.2 | 163.6 | 85.8 | 38.4 | 28.0 | 35.1 |
| l/s/km2 | 18.0 | 14.5 | 13.9 | 21.8 | 47.0 | 72.3 | 78.8 | 61.1 | 33.1 | 14.3 | 10.8 | 13.1 |
