HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080868460
Bassin de Río Aguán
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 5 administrative regions : Esquipulas del Norte, Jutiapa, La Ceiba, La Unión, Olanchito
Sub-basin area
595,8km²
Upstream area
5 000,7km²
Discharge
77,21m³/s
Mean elev.
492m
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°
24,6°C
Annual rain
1 373mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,19
Runoff
669mm/an
PET
1 720mm
AET
1 119mm
Mean slope
11,5°
Water table
371cm
Forest
62%
Crops
14%
Urban
2%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)