HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080033220
Bassin de Río Esmeraldas
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 6 administrative regions : Atacames, Esmeraldas, Muisne, Pedernales, Quinindé +1
Sub-basin area
2 003,9km²
Upstream area
21 626,5km²
Discharge
839,27m³/s
Mean elev.
226m
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°
24,6°C
Annual rain
1 655mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,11
Runoff
1 014mm/an
PET
1 405mm
AET
1 088mm
Mean slope
11,0°
Water table
453cm
Forest
14%
Crops
11%
Urban
1%
Protected
16%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)