Spanish term (edited): cuenca imbr�fera

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Spanish term (edited): cuenca imbr�fera

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,330 for "headwaters basin"

Con algo de investigación (pero no completa) al parecer "cuenca imbrífera" se refiere nada más a la parte alta de una cuenca hidrográfica y no a toda la cuenca en general o "watershed"; lo anterior en zonas montañosas y principalmente en la cordillera andina.

Tú puedes investigar más.

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Dos posibilidades más y mucho más frecuentes:

Results 1 - 10 of about 137,000 for "upper basin".
Results 1 - 10 of about 79,300 for "upper watershed".

Puedes investigar la conveniencia de aplicar estos términos al texto que te ocupa.

Spanish term (edited): cuenca imbr�fera

Here is a definition of "imbriferous" in English:

imbriferous - rain carrying, such as clouds. impecunious - Having little or no
money. impecunious - Having no cash or money ...
www.islandnet.com/~egbird/dict/words.pdf

And my Latin dictionary says that "imbrifer,-a" means "rain-bringing."

I didn't find any convincing examples of "rainy basin," so I think it must mean "rainforest":

The Amazon river and its **rainforest basin**. The Amazon river. Its water flows brown and muddy, it is the ocean river with miles of unending water from side ...
www.amazoncruise.net/the-amazon

Here are some examples of "imbriferous" in English:

...destitute of protection against **imbriferous** inclemency under ...
www.ikanlundu.com/garnett/butterflies.html

I had thought that we might finally be done with all of the ramifications of the
**imbriferous** storms that we had a couple of weeks ago, but I was wrong. ...
www.rickgebhardt.net/archives/2004_09_01_archive.html

This one could be a translation:

[PDF] Lake Environment Conservation: Argentina, 1998
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reforested areas, most part of the imbriferous basin. Sierras Pampeanas. In the
center of the country, among sandy plains, an ancient structure of mountains ...
www.ilec.or.jp/newsfiles/031029_dev_rep/ h09/pdf/lakes_ar_c03s02.pdf







reforested areas, most part of the imbriferous basin. Sierras Pampeanas. In the
center of the country, among sandy plains, an ancient structure of mountains ...
www.ilec.or.jp/newsfiles/031029_dev_rep/ h09/pdf/lakes_ar_c03s02.pdf

Spanish term (edited): cuenca imbr�fera

Rainfall basin.

El río recibe agua de las lluvias que caen sobre un área de 34040 km2 , que es la cuenca imbrifera.

algunas referencias:

Annual precipitation over the Everglades National Park (ENP) rainfall basin defined by the SFWMD (corresponding roughly to the ENP boundaries, not including Florida Bay) averaged 55.5 inches, with a standard deviation of 9.9 inches, from 1941 to 1985 (Sculley, 1986, page 44-45).
http://snre.ufl.edu/publications/c111.htm


to WS37 a high elevation, high rainfall basin with thin. soils that was clearcut without road construction or. timber harvest (Hewlett and Helvey, 1970). ...
cwt33.ecology.uga.edu/publications/1392.pdf

Total and homogeneous rainfall basin coverage. complex adsorption models typical of local scale but unsuited for representation of processes at the basin ...
cetemps.aquila.infn.it/issaos_2005/ lectures/INTROFiorentinoISSAOS2005.ppt

(At least to that extent, it was probably a good thing that Canberra sits in a low-rainfall basin.)...
sendinthecows.blogspot.com/ 2005_02_01_sendinthecows_archive.html


"As a graduate student, I was involved in an extensive broad-based study dealing with the problems of overgrazing in a particular rainfall basin,
http://news.ucanr.org/newsstorymain.cfm?story=72

Spanish term (edited): cuenca imbr�fera

I am still not sure about this one but wanted to give you the information I'd found. The following definition seems to imply it only refers to rainwater. However, I think you could probably simply say 'catchment area' or 'watershed' as Anita also suggested.

HTH


Sheila

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Cuenca hidrográfica (Ferrer-Véliz E. 1978): Territorio cuyas aguas afluyen todas a un mismo lugar. Está constituida por la vertiente y los vasos de avenamiento.
***Cuenca imbrífera o imbibifera*** (Ferrer-Véliz E. 1978): Cuyas aguas provienen exclusivamente de las lluvias.

Catchment area:

An area that 'catches' rainfall or snow to supply a river, aquifer, or lake.?www.aaas.org/international/ehn/waterpop/gloss.htm

The Watershed
The area that a stream drains is called its drainage basin, or catchment area. We also often call it the river's watershed. Water flows downhill (unless it evaporates, freezes, or is taken up by plants). So when it falls as rain, melts from snow or ice, or bubbles up from beneath the earth, it will either flow one direction or another, and always downhill. If you were to stand by a stream at the bottom of a valley, you might look up and see hills all around you. All the land you see that slopes downward toward your river is part of the river's drainage basin. Some drainage basins are so unbelievably huge that you can't even see where their downhill flows begin. For instance, if you stood by the Mississippi River, you couldn't see the Rocky Mountains. Still, rain that falls in the Rocky Mountains ends up in the Mississippi River.

http://chamisa.freeshell.org/ecology.htm


Su cuenca imbrífera es llenada por glaciares y precipitaciones que la mantienen llena todo el año, a pesar de que alimenta continuamente al importante río Diamante.
http://www.rudyparra.com/spanish/otrasmontanas.htm


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Catchment area "the area from which rainfall flows into a river, reservoir, etc."

New Shorter Oxford Dictionary


catchment area noun 1 the area served by a particular school, hospital, etc, encompassing those people who are expected to make use of the facilities within it. 2 (also drainage basin) the area of land whose rainfall feeds a particular river, lake or reservoir.

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