SINCHI App: The Amazon in Your Hand

The Colombian Amazon is a vital territory for humanity: it is home to unique biodiversity, ancient cultures, and plays an essential role in regulating the global climate. With the SINCHI App, developed by the Amazonian Institute of Scientific Research (SINCHI), you can now easily, quickly, and reliably access the scientific and cultural information that has been built over more than 30 years of research in the region.

The app transforms knowledge into an accessible, engaging, and practical digital experience for communities, students, teachers, researchers, and the general public. With a few taps on the screen, you can explore interactive maps, consult species catalogs, and learn about the social, environmental, and cultural processes that give life to the Amazon.

Why use the SINCHI App?
Because it integrates science, culture, and conservation into a single tool.
Because it translates technical information into clear and useful language for everyone.
Because it facilitates education, research, and decision-making about the Amazon.

Because it brings everyone closer to understanding a territory vital to humanity.

Main Features
Access reliable information on flora, fauna, natural resources, Indigenous well-being indicators, socio-environmental dynamics, and much more. All the knowledge generated by the SINCHI Institute is available for review.

Students, teachers, and decision-makers will find a pedagogical and technical resource that facilitates understanding and management of the Amazonian territory.

Learn about initiatives that protect the standing forest and promote responsible use of resources, from community agreements to ecological restoration processes.

Explore how the Amazon has changed over time: deforestation, restoration, territorial occupation, and conservation actions, in a journey that connects past, present, and future.

Discover the Amazon through dynamic maps showing Indigenous territories, protected areas, ecosystems, watersheds, and conservation zones. An intuitive way to understand the magnitude of this territory.

The app highlights the territories and knowledge of the Amazonian peoples, recognizing their role in conservation and the transmission of ancestral knowledge.

The main menu is available at the bottom of the screen and allows easy access to the app's different modules:

Socio-Environmental Dynamics: Information on environmental and social conflicts in the Amazon.

Ecosystems and Natural Resources: Catalog of Amazonian biodiversity.
Sustainability: Data on species with sustainable uses and their potential in the bioeconomy.

Agroforestry and Forestry Species: Catalog of species with productive and forestry importance.

Operating Models: Information on environmental management models and sustainable planning alternatives.

The Amazon is a touch away

The SINCHI App is more than just an application: it is a window to the heart of the Amazon, an invitation to explore its secrets, value its natural and cultural wealth, and recognize the work of scientists, researchers, and communities that protect it every day. Download it, explore it, and connect with the largest rainforest on the planet: the Amazon.

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