HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080000450
Bassin de Río Sinú
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 5 administrative regions : Moñitos, Purísima, San Antero, San Bernardo del Viento, Santa Cruz de Lorica
Sub-basin area
734,9km²
Upstream area
14 065,7km²
Discharge
329,98m³/s
Mean elev.
29m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Sinú2143 km²
- Bassin de Arroyo La Culebra1 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 389.0 km²53.1% of basin
- 237.5 km²32.5% of basin
- 71.6 km²9.8% of basin
- 25.9 km²3.5% of basin
- 6.6 km²0.9% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Cuenca Hidrográfica Rio Medio y Bajo Sinú
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
515.60 km² overlap
Integrated Management Regional Districts
170.61 km² overlap
Integrated Management Regional Districts
5.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
536 distinct species · 15 664 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río Sinú : 25 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,4°C
Annual rain
1 331mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,17
Runoff
445mm/an
PET
1 601mm
AET
1 101mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
93cm
Forest
8%
Crops
6%
Urban
2%
Protected
26%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)