HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080879220
Bassin de Río Varela
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 5 administrative regions : Achuapa, El Sauce, Estelí, San Juan de Limay, San Nicolás
Sub-basin area
347,7km²
Upstream area
347,8km²
Discharge
6,36m³/s
Mean elev.
600m
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°
23,8°C
Annual rain
1 440mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,15
Runoff
555mm/an
PET
1 681mm
AET
1 007mm
Mean slope
10,6°
Water table
445cm
Forest
10%
Crops
61%
Urban
0%
Protected
18%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)