HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080871710
Bassin de Río Plátanos
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 38 administrative regions : Chinautla, Chuarrancho, Fraijanes, Jalapa, Mataquescuintla +33
Sub-basin area
1 486,5km²
Upstream area
1 486,5km²
Discharge
27,75m³/s
Mean elev.
1 456m
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°
19,6°C
Annual rain
1 295mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
675mm/an
PET
1 448mm
AET
901mm
Mean slope
12,5°
Water table
387cm
Forest
4%
Crops
51%
Urban
29%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)