HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080068710
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 2 administrative regions : Catatumbo, Jesús María Semprún
Sub-basin area
385,7km²
Upstream area
15 118,8km²
Discharge
390,77m³/s
Mean elev.
13m
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°
28,6°C
Annual rain
1 723mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,07
Runoff
655mm/an
PET
1 847mm
AET
1 393mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
19cm
Forest
3%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)