HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080156440
Bassin de Austari-Jökulsá
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 4 administrative regions : Akrahreppur, Eyjafjarðarsveit, Sveitarfélagið Skagafjörður, Öxnadalshreppur
Sub-basin area
640,7km²
Upstream area
1 184,9km²
Discharge
24,89m³/s
Mean elev.
789m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Austari-Jökulsá344 km²
- Bassin de Hnjúkskvísl201 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 407.2 km²63.1% of basin
- 146.1 km²22.7% of basin
- 91.6 km²14.2% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
801 distinct species · 1 960 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 Austari-Jökulsá : 14 espèces reliées par 27 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.7%, 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°
-0,4°C
Annual rain
1 088mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,71
Runoff
725mm/an
PET
314mm
AET
308mm
Mean slope
8,2°
Water table
0cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)