HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080054590
Bassin de Arroyo Moroncira
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 7 administrative regions across 2 countries : Barrancas, Guajira, Hatonuevo, Maicao, Manaure +2
Sub-basin area
1 265,7km²
Upstream area
3 500,4km²
Discharge
23,1m³/s
Mean elev.
130m
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°
27,7°C
Annual rain
941mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
187mm/an
PET
1 717mm
AET
793mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
156cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
1%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)