HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080054920
Bassin de Río Sixaola
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 : Changuinola, Limón, Talamanca
Sub-basin area
460,5km²
Upstream area
2 868,2km²
Discharge
159,2m³/s
Mean elev.
110m
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
2 451mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,37
Runoff
1 667mm/an
PET
1 542mm
AET
1 527mm
Mean slope
5,3°
Water table
187cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
2%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)