HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080883780
Bassin de Río General
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 11 administrative regions : Barva, Cartago, Goicoechea, Heredia, Moravia +6
Sub-basin area
571,1km²
Upstream area
571,1km²
Discharge
42,98m³/s
Mean elev.
1 213m
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°
19,9°C
Annual rain
3 071mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,54
Runoff
2 373mm/an
PET
1 385mm
AET
1 334mm
Mean slope
15,7°
Water table
479cm
Forest
87%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
85%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)