HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080049610
Bassin de River Avon
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 : Bath and North East Somerset, NA, Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon
Sub-basin area
2 239,9km²
Upstream area
2 240km²
Discharge
36,65m³/s
Mean elev.
103m
Administrative coverage
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- NAEngland · United Kingdom1016.7 km²45.2% of basin
- Bath and North East SomersetEngland · United Kingdom338.9 km²15.1% of basin
- South GloucestershireEngland · United Kingdom325.2 km²14.5% of basin
- SomersetEngland · United Kingdom314.0 km²14.0% of basin
- NAEngland · United Kingdom105.2 km²4.7% of basin
- NANA · United Kingdom83.5 km²3.7% of basin
- NAEngland · United Kingdom63.9 km²2.8% of basin
- SwindonEngland · United Kingdom0.7 km²0.0% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Cotswolds
IUCN VArea of Outstanding Natural Beauty
401.22 km² overlap
Mendip Hills
IUCN VArea of Outstanding Natural Beauty
48.36 km² overlap
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
42.69 km² overlap
North Wessex Downs
IUCN VArea of Outstanding Natural Beauty
42.03 km² overlap
Chew Valley Lake
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
5.76 km² overlap
Chew Valley Lake
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
5.76 km² overlap
Salisbury Plain
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
5.53 km² overlap
Salisbury Plain
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
5.53 km² overlap
Salisbury Plain
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
5.52 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Bratton Downs
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
4.01 km² overlap
Longleat Woods
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
2.24 km² overlap
Ashton Court
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
2.11 km² overlap
St. Catherine's Valley
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
1.57 km² overlap
Avon Gorge
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
1.56 km² overlap
Avon Gorge Woodlands
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
1.51 km² overlap
Asham Wood
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
1.43 km² overlap
Mendip Woodlands
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
1.34 km² overlap
Calstone and Cherhill Downs
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
1.28 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
1.25 km² overlap
Dyrham
IUCN VNature Reserve
1.11 km² overlap
Bath and Bradford-on-Avon Bats
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
1.08 km² overlap
Folly Farm
IUCN IVLocal Nature Reserve
0.99 km² overlap
Spye Park
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.90 km² overlap
Postlebury Wood
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.87 km² overlap
Roundway Down and Covert
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.84 km² overlap
Severn Estuary/ Môr Hafren
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
0.69 km² overlap
Picket and Clanger Wood
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.67 km² overlap
Leigh Woods
IUCN IVNational Nature Reserve
0.64 km² overlap
Leigh Woods
IUCN VNature Reserve
0.64 km² overlap
Box Mine
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.59 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 885 distinct species · 4 166 503 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 River Avon : 16 espèces reliées par 108 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 24.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
9,4°C
Annual rain
783mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,14
Runoff
522mm/an
PET
671mm
AET
525mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
138cm
Forest
0%
Crops
36%
Urban
19%
Protected
25%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)