Water bodies watercourse - Guyana - Version State of the Places 2019

A body of river water is a distinct and significant part of surface waters such as a river, a river or a canal, a part of a river, a river or a canal, constituting the elementary division of aquatic environments intended to be the unit of assessment of the WFD.

The criteria for constructing river water bodies are:
- A body of water belongs to a single hydroecoregion;
- The dominant fish population based on the fish farming context (Salmoniculture, Cyprinicole, Intermédiaire);
- Size class (Strahler confluence row).

WFD reporting correspondence: This entity corresponds to the concept of WISE's Surface Water Body Line.

Layers shall be disseminated in a format compliant with the SANDRE Data Dictionary of the Water Body Repository, version 1.4.