The most recent numerical models of urban drainage allow the integration of runoff from roads with the network of sewer pipes, thus evolving towards a holistic version of the system. A fundamental part of this integration is the capture of stormwater in urban drain inlets. These studies have recently increased, resulting in different methodologies to represent the uptake process and making it difficult to apply unified or general formulations. Therefore, this document intends to be a review of the most representative experimental and numerical studies on the capture of rainwater through grates. In addition, the review includes the proposed methodologies for estimating the flow captured by urban storm drains to define a starting point for new and complementary studies to be carried out by researchers, manufacturers, and operators involved in public drainage service systems. Particularly in Latin America, research on the subject is limited even though it is a highly urbanized region. In this context, this document has an additional interest in presenting a particular analysis of the concept of urban drainage in Latin American cities.

Las curvas Intensidad-Duración-Frecuencia (IDF) actuales suponen que la precipitación no varía significativamente con el tiempo, subestimando así sus eventos extremos, lo que aumenta el riesgo de inundaciones y de daños en la infraestructura, es por esto que se deben estudiar metodologías que permitan su estimación en condición de cambio climático, es decir, con un enfoque no estacionario, tal como en este estudio, en el que se estimaron curvas IDF estacionarias y no estacionarias para 9 estaciones pluviográficas dispuestas sobre la cuenca del río Medellín. Para ajustar las series de tiempo de precipitación se hizo uso de la distribución de valores extremos EV1, sus parámetros estacionarios fueron calculados por medio del método de los L-momentos y los no estacionarios por el de ventanas móviles. Se evidencia el efecto del cambio climático en intensidades altas y duraciones pequeñas, obteniéndose que el enfoque estacionario puede subestimar los eventos extremos hasta en un 39%.

It is essential to know the streamflow behavior in hydrological basins for appropriate water resource planning and management. In Colombia, where there is a considerable water resource potential, there is a need to generate hydrological modeling for many ungauged catchments. Thus, this study presents the regionalization of flow duration curves (FDC) in Colombia. Daily flow time series from 655 gauging stations were used to define homogenous hydrological regions, considering geological, topographic, and climatic information. Fifteen hydrological regions were delimited by cluster analysis using the K-means algorithm, all of which exhibited high spatial heterogeneity. Multiple linear regressions were used to estimate characteristic dimensionless flows as a function of each basin's attributes. A set of equations that allow the reconstruction of simulated dimensionless FDC for each cluster was determined, and regression (R2) values of 0.5–0.9 were obtained. The percentage error of the mean, maximum, and minimum discharge of the simulated FDC compared with observed values were approximately 9, 30, and 50%, respectively.

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