HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080880180
Bassin de Río Sinecapa
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 : El Jicaral, El Sauce, Estelí, La Paz Centro, Lago de Managua +3
Sub-basin area
1 388,4km²
Upstream area
1 388,7km²
Discharge
17,19m³/s
Mean elev.
269m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 342.1 km²24.7% of basin
- El JicaralLeón · Nicaragua313.5 km²22.7% of basin
- La Paz CentroLeón · Nicaragua276.5 km²20.0% of basin
- 184.2 km²13.3% of basin
- San NicolásEstelí · Nicaragua149.9 km²10.8% of basin
- 55.6 km²4.0% of basin
- Lago de ManaguaManagua · Nicaragua55.2 km²4.0% of basin
- 6.0 km²0.4% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Nature Reserve
41.22 km² overlap
Cerro Tisey – Estanzuela
IUCN IVNature Reserve
35.86 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
12.36 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
743 distinct species · 3 628 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 Sinecapa : 34 espèces reliées par 77 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
25,8°C
Annual rain
1 303mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
475mm/an
PET
1 740mm
AET
964mm
Mean slope
5,5°
Water table
250cm
Forest
12%
Crops
41%
Urban
0%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)