Conservation Area · isl
Breiðafjörður
- Area
- 2 845 km²
- IUCN cat.
- V
- Year
- 1995
Overview
- Designation
- Conservation Area
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
- Established
- 1995
- Managing authority
- Ministry for the Environment and Natural Resources
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 450 distinct species · 37 431 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Breiðafjörður : 21 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 62 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 13.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology5 basins · 1 lakes · 33 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
14,4km
Lake surface here
0,01km²
Basins crossed
5
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
6 006km²
Discharge in basins
0,3m³/s
Mean precip.
1 033mm/an
Mean T°
2,1°C
Moisture idx
0,68
Max snow
52%
Mean runoff
1 342mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
292m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (1, top by area)
Rivers / streams (33, ord ≥ 4)
- Bæjarlækurord 3len here1.87 km52%total4 km
- Múlaáord 2len here1.21 km17%total7 km
- Galtdardalsáord 1len here1.06 km65%total2 km
- Grjótáord 1len here0.95 km100%total1 km
- Kleifaáord 2len here0.88 km23%total4 km
- Kjálkafjarðaráord 2len here0.87 km12%total7 km
- Brekkuáord 1len here0.62 km82%total1 km
- Ljáord 2len here0.61 km10%total6 km
- Kinnarstaðaáord 1len here0.60 km64%total1 km
- Fáskrúðord 3len here0.58 km2%total27 km
- Galtardalsáord 2len here0.56 km4%total14 km
- Brekkuáord 2len here0.51 km6%total8 km
21 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Grjótáord 3len here0.50 km16%total3 km
- Staðaráord 1len here0.34 km12%total3 km
- Slýáord 1len here0.30 km10%total3 km
- Hvammsáord 2len here0.29 km3%total10 km
- Holtsáord 2len here0.28 km5%total5 km
- Krossáord 1len here0.25 km8%total3 km
- Skarðsáord 1len here0.25 km10%total3 km
- Múlarangalaáord 1len here0.21 km3%total7 km
- Skoravíkuráord 2len here0.21 km1%total16 km
- Skarðsáord 2len here0.20 km7%total3 km
- Gleráord 2len here0.18 km1%total15 km
- Báráord 1len here0.17 km11%total2 km
- Stafáord 1len here0.16 km13%total1 km
- Hrísáord 1len here0.15 km7%total2 km
- Bakkáord 1len here0.15 km1%total12 km
- Grundaráord 1len here0.14 km4%total3 km
- Vattardalsáord 2len here0.09 km1%total14 km
- Fagridalsáord 3len here0.06 km1%total7 km
- Móraord 1len here0.06 km2%total3 km
- Hlíðaráord 1len here0.05 km3%total1 km
- Hörðudalsáord 3len here0.05 km1%total8 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 65.27992, -22.65880
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.