HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080054820
Bassin de Río Chirripó
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 7 administrative regions : Limón, Matina, Paraíso, Pérez Zeledón, Siquirres +2
Sub-basin area
1 606,9km²
Upstream area
1 607,2km²
Discharge
117,27m³/s
Mean elev.
993m
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°
20,9°C
Annual rain
3 335mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,56
Runoff
2 260mm/an
PET
1 428mm
AET
1 409mm
Mean slope
14,8°
Water table
415cm
Forest
96%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
29%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)