HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080160030
Bassin de Río Mechengue
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 3 administrative regions : Argelia, El Tambo, Patía
Sub-basin area
421,4km²
Upstream area
421,4km²
Discharge
27,56m³/s
Mean elev.
1 447m
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°
20,2°C
Annual rain
3 264mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,52
Runoff
2 118mm/an
PET
1 536mm
AET
1 494mm
Mean slope
24,7°
Water table
742cm
Forest
60%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)