HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080019310
Bassin de Río Miño / Rio Minho
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 across 2 countries : Arcos de Valdevez, Melgaço, Monção, Ourense, Paredes de Coura +3
Sub-basin area
1 708,6km²
Upstream area
16 651,4km²
Discharge
356,4m³/s
Mean elev.
335m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Río Miño1642 km²
- Bassin de Río Arnoia745 km²
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1013.4 km²59.2% of basin
- MonçãoViana do Castelo · Portugal202.4 km²11.8% of basin
- 172.6 km²10.1% of basin
- 148.9 km²8.7% of basin
- ValençaViana do Castelo · Portugal116.9 km²6.8% of basin
- Vila Nova de CerveiraViana do Castelo · Portugal48.9 km²2.9% of basin
- Arcos de ValdevezViana do Castelo · Portugal4.7 km²0.3% of basin
- Paredes de CouraViana do Castelo · Portugal3.4 km²0.2% of basin
21 intersecting protected areas
Baixa Limia
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
53.32 km² overlap
Baixa Limia
IUCN Not AssignedNatura 2000
52.50 km² overlap
Rio Minho
IUCN Not ReportedSite of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)
29.27 km² overlap
Baixa Limia - Serra do Xurés
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
27.02 km² overlap
Baixa Limia-Serra do Xurés
IUCN Not AssignedNatura 2000
26.89 km² overlap
Peneda-Geres
IUCN IINational Park
18.16 km² overlap
Peneda / Gerês
IUCN Not ReportedSite of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)
18.14 km² overlap
Serra do Gerês
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
18.05 km² overlap
Baixo Miño
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
16.56 km² overlap
12 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Baixo Miño
IUCN Not AssignedNatura 2000
14.98 km² overlap
Estuários dos Rios Minho e Coura
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
13.93 km² overlap
Monte Aloia
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
7.84 km² overlap
Monte Aloia
IUCN Not AssignedNatura 2000
7.84 km² overlap
Monte Aloia
IUCN IINatural Park
7.84 km² overlap
Gándaras de Budiño
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
7.28 km² overlap
Gándaras de Budiño
IUCN Not AssignedNatura 2000
7.28 km² overlap
Comunidade de Montes Veciñais en Man Común de Santiago de Covelo
IUCN Not ReportedICCA
5.79 km² overlap
Esteiro do Miño
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
5.53 km² overlap
Esteiro do Miño
IUCN Not AssignedNatura 2000
5.38 km² overlap
Río Tea
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
3.57 km² overlap
Río Tea
IUCN Not AssignedNatura 2000
3.57 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 864 distinct species · 97 727 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Miño / Rio Minho : 28 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 87 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 13.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
13,5°C
Annual rain
1 380mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,34
Runoff
1 074mm/an
PET
895mm
AET
691mm
Mean slope
9,2°
Water table
337cm
Forest
96%
Crops
2%
Urban
7%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)