HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080054060
Bassin de Río Coco
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 across 2 countries : Puerto Lempira, Ramón Villeda Morales, Waspán
Sub-basin area
1 691,1km²
Upstream area
24 600,7km²
Discharge
755,8m³/s
Mean elev.
35m
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°
25,2°C
Annual rain
2 446mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,46
Runoff
1 834mm/an
PET
1 324mm
AET
1 214mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
15cm
Forest
90%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
25%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)