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Fifty-Year Flood-Inundation Maps for Nacaome, Honduras |
 | | This report, which is one in a series of 15, presents maps of areas in the municipality of Nacaome that would be inundated by 50-year floods on Río Nacaome, Río Grande, and Río Guacirope. |
 | | The estimated 50-year-flood discharge for Río Nacaome at Nacaome, 5,040 cubic meters per second, was computed as the drainage-area-adjusted weighted average of two independently estimated 50-year-flood discharges for the gaging station Río Nacaome en Las Mercedes, located about 13 kilometers upstream from Nacaome. |
 | | One of the discharges, 4,549 cubic meters per second, was estimated from a frequency analysis of the 16 years of peak-discharge record for the gage, and the other, 1,922 cubic meters per second, was estimated from a regression equation that relates the 50-year-flood discharge to drainage area and mean annual precipitation. |
| pubs.usgs.gov /of/2002/ofr02256 (548 words) |
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