HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080868090
Bassin de Río Cahabón
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 12 administrative regions : Cobán, Lanquín, Purulhá, San Cristóbal Verapaz, San Juan Chamelco +7
Sub-basin area
1 997,3km²
Upstream area
1 997,8km²
Discharge
94,59m³/s
Mean elev.
1 217m
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°
19,8°C
Annual rain
2 909mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,51
Runoff
1 390mm/an
PET
1 359mm
AET
1 291mm
Mean slope
13,0°
Water table
426cm
Forest
30%
Crops
12%
Urban
6%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)