HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080870380
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 4 administrative regions : Camotán, Gualán, La Unión, Zacapa
Sub-basin area
391,3km²
Upstream area
391,3km²
Discharge
8,67m³/s
Mean elev.
769m
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°
23,1°C
Annual rain
1 449mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,08
Runoff
692mm/an
PET
1 582mm
AET
1 095mm
Mean slope
13,4°
Water table
405cm
Forest
25%
Crops
28%
Urban
2%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)