HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080883650
Bassin de Río Cañas
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 4 administrative regions : Bagaces, Carrillo, Nicoya, Santa Cruz
Sub-basin area
809,1km²
Upstream area
809,1km²
Discharge
25,6m³/s
Mean elev.
133m
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°
26,0°C
Annual rain
1 830mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,02
Runoff
1 103mm/an
PET
1 792mm
AET
1 186mm
Mean slope
6,4°
Water table
268cm
Forest
52%
Crops
39%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)