HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080057860
Bassin de Laxá á Asum
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 3 administrative regions : Blönduós, Sveinsstaðahreppur, Torfalækjarhreppur
Sub-basin area
55km²
Upstream area
55,1km²
Discharge
1m³/s
Mean elev.
85m
Administrative coverage
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 38.0 km²68.6% of basin
- 15.3 km²27.7% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
226 distinct species · 917 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 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 Laxá á Asum : 14 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 58 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 22.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
2,7°C
Annual rain
810mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,58
Runoff
572mm/an
PET
337mm
AET
306mm
Mean slope
4,0°
Water table
0cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)