HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080001650
Bassin de Río Tempisque
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 : Bagaces, Carrillo, Nicoya, Santa Cruz
Sub-basin area
378,4km²
Upstream area
3 269,7km²
Discharge
107,93m³/s
Mean elev.
44m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
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Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
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Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,4°C
Annual rain
1 901mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
1 151mm/an
PET
1 793mm
AET
1 220mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
187cm
Forest
56%
Crops
32%
Urban
0%
Protected
28%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)