HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080881730
Bassin de Estero El Monote
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 2 administrative regions : Acoyapa, Lago de Nicaragua
Sub-basin area
112,3km²
Upstream area
2 910,9km²
Discharge
29,88m³/s
Mean elev.
41m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Mayales1950 km²
- Bassin de Río Ojocuapa849 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 56.1 km²50.1% of basin
- 55.8 km²49.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,5°C
Annual rain
1 580mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
266mm/an
PET
1 652mm
AET
1 107mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
43cm
Forest
14%
Crops
45%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)