HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080869770
Bassin de Río Chixoy
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 10 administrative regions : Canillá, Chicaman, Chinique, Cubulco, Joyabaj +5
Sub-basin area
824,9km²
Upstream area
3 626,5km²
Discharge
99,46m³/s
Mean elev.
1 519m
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°
19,1°C
Annual rain
1 560mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,02
Runoff
1 133mm/an
PET
1 498mm
AET
1 106mm
Mean slope
17,7°
Water table
556cm
Forest
48%
Crops
25%
Urban
8%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)