HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080055230
Bassin de Río El Limón
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 8 administrative regions across 2 countries : Barrancas, Fonseca, Guajira, Hatonuevo, Jesús Enrique Lossada +3
Sub-basin area
1 620,9km²
Upstream area
2 067,6km²
Discharge
4,2m³/s
Mean elev.
553m
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 251mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
124mm/an
PET
1 604mm
AET
1 015mm
Mean slope
11,1°
Water table
484cm
Forest
18%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
82%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)