Channel and Floodplain Cross Sections, Comayagua, Honduras

Description:

Cross sections for the 50-year flood, for Rio Humuya, Comayagua, Honduras. Water-surface elevations for an estimated 50-year-flood discharge on Rio Humuya at Comayagua were determined using HEC-RAS, a one-dimensional step-backwater computer program. The channel and floodplain cross section geometry used in HEC-RAS were developed from an airborne light detection and ranging (LIDAR) topographic survey of the area. The 50-year-flood discharge for Rio Humuya, 1400 cubic meters per second, was estimated using a regression equation that relates the 50-year-flood discharge to drainage area and mean annual precipitation. The area of inundation and depth of flood coverage was created with the HEC-RAS output and topographic TIN using HEC-geo-RAS software.

Creator:

Geological Survey (U.S.)

Publisher:

United States Geological Survey

Provider:

Harvard

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Line data

Subject:

Floods, Floodplains, Flood control, inlandWaters, and cross sections

Temporal Coverage:

2001

Date Issued:

2001

Spatial Coverage:

Honduras, Comayagua, Departamento de, and Comayagua

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

Shapefile