ORE HYBAM

The HYBAM Observatory is a very unique structure, operational since 2003 and focused on monitoring rivers and water resources in the Amazon. HYBAM is a research support service that carries out long-term hydrological, sedimentary and geochemical measurements to understand the origin and evolution of waters and transported materials (sediments, organic matter, nutrients, etc.) in Amazonian rivers from the Andes Cordillera to the Atlantic Ocean. HYBAM associates partners from all the countries of the basin and completes this network with four additional stations on rivers that also drain into the tropical Atlantic Ocean: the Orinoco, Congo, Maroni and Oyapock Rivers.