HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080068570
Bassin de Río Catatumbo
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 4 administrative regions : Convención, El Tarra, Teorama, Tibú
Sub-basin area
669km²
Upstream area
5 363,4km²
Discharge
116,85m³/s
Mean elev.
333m
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°
26,3°C
Annual rain
3 458mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,48
Runoff
838mm/an
PET
1 750mm
AET
1 652mm
Mean slope
10,7°
Water table
400cm
Forest
33%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
37%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)