HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080058960
Bassin de Stórilækur
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 5 administrative regions : Bárðdælahreppur, Norður-Hérað, Skaftárhreppur, Skútustaðahreppur, Sveitarfélagið Hornafjörður
Sub-basin area
1 695km²
Upstream area
1 695km²
Discharge
133,6m³/s
Mean elev.
1 134m
Administrative coverage
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1187.6 km²69.6% of basin
- 246.3 km²14.4% of basin
- 163.6 km²9.6% of basin
- 105.8 km²6.2% of basin
- 2.6 km²0.2% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Vatnajökulsþjóðgarður
IUCN IINational Park
1636.94 km² overlap
Vatnajökull National Park - Dynamic Nature of Fire and Ice
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
1636.94 km² overlap
Vatnajökulsþjóðgarður
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
1636.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
854 distinct species · 9 855 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Stórilækur : 23 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 84 interactions GloBI sur 7 types (connectance 11.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 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°
-2,0°C
Annual rain
1 681mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,83
Runoff
2 193mm/an
PET
278mm
AET
278mm
Mean slope
10,8°
Water table
0cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
96%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)