HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080871640
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 21 administrative regions : Chichicastenango, Chiché, Chinique, Comalapa, Cubulco +16
Sub-basin area
1 740,4km²
Upstream area
1 740,5km²
Discharge
58,32m³/s
Mean elev.
1 875m
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°
17,3°C
Annual rain
1 173mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,16
Runoff
1 107mm/an
PET
1 400mm
AET
906mm
Mean slope
12,5°
Water table
362cm
Forest
64%
Crops
28%
Urban
16%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)