HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080872160
Bassin de Río El Playón
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 14 administrative regions across 2 countries : Cabañas, Camotán, Concepción, Copán Ruinas, Dolores Merendon +9
Sub-basin area
566,3km²
Upstream area
566,3km²
Discharge
11m³/s
Mean elev.
1 041m
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°
21,5°C
Annual rain
1 380mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
618mm/an
PET
1 537mm
AET
1 062mm
Mean slope
12,8°
Water table
459cm
Forest
8%
Crops
47%
Urban
6%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)