Estimación para caudales medios del exponente n inmerso en la ecuación de transferencia de caudales para la región del alto Magdalena

Abstract

The riverbed of the Alto Magdalena river which is included between the departments of Huila and Tolima have limited data on conditions hydrological conditions of the area, and therefore the calculation of the flow in this region, is not optimal due to the scarcity of information. So, for the execution of various civil projects in the sector, it is necessary to apply other methodologies to find the flow, which provides an adequate reliability percentage and in turn reduce the error of this. Among these methods, there is the transfer method flow, which allows transferring flow data from nearby stations, in order to estimate an admissible value of the flow in the regions that present insufficient data. Therefore, it is intended to evaluate or estimate the exponent n of the equation of transfer of flows, in the particular case of medium flows by applying the methodology set forth by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the which takes into account the data collected by the limnigraphic stations and limnimetric distributed in the region, to later establish with it the flow value in areas with low or scarce information.