HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080053520
Bassin de Río Papaloteca
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 11 administrative regions : Balfate, Guanaja, José Santos Guardiola, Jutiapa, La Ceiba +6
Sub-basin area
1 868,3km²
Upstream area
1 868,3km²
Discharge
2,29m³/s
Mean elev.
228m
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°
25,8°C
Annual rain
1 965mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,16
Runoff
968mm/an
PET
1 628mm
AET
1 308mm
Mean slope
8,4°
Water table
296cm
Forest
92%
Crops
2%
Urban
2%
Protected
25%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)