Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080019190

Bassin de Rio Ave

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 19 administrative regions : Barcelos, Braga, Cabeceiras de Basto, Celorico de Basto, Fafe +14

Pfafstetter: 23190102

Sub-basin area

1 380,9km²

Upstream area

1 381km²

Discharge

43,03m³/s

Mean elev.

282m

Administrative coverage

19 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

11 more
  • Trofa62.7 km² · 4.5%
  • Barcelos56.3 km² · 4.1%
  • Felgueiras32.7 km² · 2.4%
  • Póvoa de Varzim31.2 km² · 2.3%
  • Vizela24.7 km² · 1.8%
  • Celorico de Basto12.7 km² · 0.9%
  • Lousada11.2 km² · 0.8%
  • Paços de Ferreira3.5 km² · 0.3%
  • Maia2.7 km² · 0.2%
  • Cabeceiras de Basto2.4 km² · 0.2%
  • Montalegre0.1 km² · 0.0%

1 intersecting protected areas

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

4 015 distinct species · 147 273 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

147 273 obs · 35 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 31 216
10 058–31 215
3 641–10 057
1 723–3 640
< 1 723

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 40 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie
RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation
StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Rio Ave : 32 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 109 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 14.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées
40
Interactions affichées
109
Connectance
0.140
Patrimoniales
1
Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

13,7°C

Annual rain

1 262mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,23

Runoff

947mm/an

PET

972mm

AET

708mm

Mean slope

7,0°

Water table

341cm

Forest

75%

Crops

14%

Urban

42%

Protected

0%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)