HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080883470
Bassin de Río Sarapiquí
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 : Alajuela, Barva, Heredia, Poás, Río Cuarto +3
Sub-basin area
846,5km²
Upstream area
846,9km²
Discharge
62,55m³/s
Mean elev.
728m
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°
22,7°C
Annual rain
3 865mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,62
Runoff
2 314mm/an
PET
1 477mm
AET
1 461mm
Mean slope
7,0°
Water table
126cm
Forest
64%
Crops
3%
Urban
1%
Protected
43%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)