HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080122810
Bassin de Río Sipí
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 3 administrative regions : Medio San Juan, Nóvita, Sipí
Sub-basin area
7,8km²
Upstream area
3 711,8km²
Discharge
400,72m³/s
Mean elev.
21m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Cajón693 km²
- Bassin de Río Sipí209 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 5.5 km²71.2% of basin
- 1.1 km²14.6% of basin
- 1.1 km²14.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 2 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,4°C
Annual rain
6 674mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,77
Runoff
5 543mm/an
PET
1 503mm
AET
1 503mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
11cm
Forest
39%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)