HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080067190
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 8 administrative regions : Canalete, Cereté, Cotorra, Montería, San Pedro de Urabá +3
Sub-basin area
2 143,2km²
Upstream area
10 416,9km²
Discharge
279,49m³/s
Mean elev.
49m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Sinú2247 km²
- Bassin de Quebrada Juí2108 km²
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1347.7 km²63.1% of basin
- 303.4 km²14.2% of basin
- 301.4 km²14.1% of basin
- 145.7 km²6.8% of basin
- 21.2 km²1.0% of basin
- 12.4 km²0.6% of basin
- 1.7 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.9 km²0.0% of basin
8 intersecting protected areas
Cuenca Hidrográfica Rio Medio y Bajo Sinú
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
1761.63 km² overlap
Cuenca Hidrográfica del Río Canalete, Rio Los Córdobas y Otros Arroyos Directos al Mar
IUCN Not ApplicableWatershed
13.02 km² overlap
Ciénaga de Corralito
IUCN VISoil Conservation Districts
12.65 km² overlap
Ciénaga los Negros
IUCN VISoil Conservation Districts
7.12 km² overlap
Integrated Management Regional Districts
6.23 km² overlap
Sierra Chiquita y Humedales
IUCN VISoil Conservation Districts
5.93 km² overlap
Ciénaga de Bañó
IUCN VISoil Conservation Districts
3.26 km² overlap
El Paraiso De Los Deseos
IUCN VICivil Society Nature Reserve
0.15 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 264 distinct species · 73 889 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 : 21 espèces reliées par 34 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
27,2°C
Annual rain
1 307mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,21
Runoff
543mm/an
PET
1 652mm
AET
1 102mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
85cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
3%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)