HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080195160
Bassin de Río Puniyacu
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 : Cotacachi, Eloy Alfaro, San Lorenzo, San Miguel de Urcuquí
Sub-basin area
514,8km²
Upstream area
514,9km²
Discharge
22,92m³/s
Mean elev.
1 693m
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°
18,1°C
Annual rain
1 926mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,26
Runoff
1 379mm/an
PET
1 410mm
AET
1 217mm
Mean slope
17,2°
Water table
485cm
Forest
68%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
98%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)