HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080031460
Bassin de Virú
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 5 administrative regions : Julcan, Otuzco, Santiago de Chuco, Trujillo, Viru
Sub-basin area
1 898,4km²
Upstream area
1 898,4km²
Discharge
5,55m³/s
Mean elev.
2 011m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
13,9°C
Annual rain
286mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,78
Runoff
120mm/an
PET
1 364mm
AET
243mm
Mean slope
15,2°
Water table
720cm
Forest
15%
Crops
13%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)