HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080870350
Bassin de Río Motagua
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 6 administrative regions : El Estor, Estanzuela, Gualán, La Unión, Río Hondo +1
Sub-basin area
481,8km²
Upstream area
11 812,3km²
Discharge
209,66m³/s
Mean elev.
785m
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°
23,2°C
Annual rain
1 669mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
825mm/an
PET
1 575mm
AET
1 063mm
Mean slope
16,1°
Water table
484cm
Forest
12%
Crops
38%
Urban
5%
Protected
35%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)