HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080003260
Bassin de Río Madre Vieja
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 16 administrative regions : Chichicastenango, Concepción, Nueva Concepción, Patulul, Patzún +11
Sub-basin area
830,1km²
Upstream area
830,1km²
Discharge
49,9m³/s
Mean elev.
858m
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°
22,8°C
Annual rain
2 158mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,19
Runoff
1 503mm/an
PET
1 629mm
AET
1 154mm
Mean slope
7,5°
Water table
208cm
Forest
43%
Crops
30%
Urban
9%
Protected
29%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)