HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080054670
Bassin de Río Tortuguero
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 : Guácimo, Pococí, Siquirres
Sub-basin area
1 358,7km²
Upstream area
1 358,7km²
Discharge
2,83m³/s
Mean elev.
47m
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°
26,1°C
Annual rain
4 443mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,65
Runoff
2 685mm/an
PET
1 546mm
AET
1 545mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
28cm
Forest
96%
Crops
2%
Urban
3%
Protected
34%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)