HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080871300
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 13 administrative regions : El Jícaro, Guastatoya, Jalapa, Morazán, Salamá +8
Sub-basin area
1 860,5km²
Upstream area
6 337,7km²
Discharge
114,67m³/s
Mean elev.
982m
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°
22,1°C
Annual rain
1 155mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
717mm/an
PET
1 528mm
AET
833mm
Mean slope
14,2°
Water table
456cm
Forest
12%
Crops
44%
Urban
5%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)