HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080871730
Bassin de Río Copán
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 8 administrative regions : Cabañas, Concepción, Copán Ruinas, El Paraíso, La Unión +3
Sub-basin area
308,2km²
Upstream area
308,3km²
Discharge
6,44m³/s
Mean elev.
1 036m
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°
21,2°C
Annual rain
1 511mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
662mm/an
PET
1 554mm
AET
1 133mm
Mean slope
13,1°
Water table
431cm
Forest
55%
Crops
16%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)