HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080871680
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 11 administrative regions : Chuarrancho, Cubulco, Granados, Rabinal, Salamá +6
Sub-basin area
494,7km²
Upstream area
2 990,9km²
Discharge
84,4m³/s
Mean elev.
1 152m
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°
21,3°C
Annual rain
1 061mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
860mm/an
PET
1 553mm
AET
852mm
Mean slope
15,0°
Water table
427cm
Forest
11%
Crops
49%
Urban
7%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)