HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080883290
Bassin de Río Peñas Blancas
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 : Montes de Oro, Naranjo, Puntarenas, San Carlos, San Ramón +3
Sub-basin area
1 508,5km²
Upstream area
1 508,6km²
Discharge
83,22m³/s
Mean elev.
710m
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°
22,8°C
Annual rain
3 252mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,52
Runoff
1 725mm/an
PET
1 517mm
AET
1 395mm
Mean slope
8,9°
Water table
220cm
Forest
72%
Crops
11%
Urban
4%
Protected
18%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)