HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080870860
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 15 administrative regions : Cabañas, Chiquimula, El Estor, El Jícaro, Estanzuela +10
Sub-basin area
1 034,2km²
Upstream area
7 970,1km²
Discharge
134,49m³/s
Mean elev.
1 067m
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°
21,5°C
Annual rain
1 624mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
808mm/an
PET
1 507mm
AET
958mm
Mean slope
15,9°
Water table
457cm
Forest
9%
Crops
34%
Urban
6%
Protected
42%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)