HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080156550
Bassin de Vestari-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, Biskupstungnahreppur, Bólstaðarhlíðarhreppur, Sveitarfélagið Skagafjörður
Sub-basin area
853km²
Upstream area
853km²
Discharge
19,6m³/s
Mean elev.
731m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 856.1 km²99.7% of basin
- 1.6 km²0.2% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Þjórsárver
IUCN IbNature Reserve
99.78 km² overlap
Þjórsárver
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
99.78 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
780 distinct species · 4 561 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Vestari-Jökulsá : 31 espèces reliées par 39 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 5.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
0,0°C
Annual rain
1 118mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,71
Runoff
799mm/an
PET
315mm
AET
309mm
Mean slope
4,7°
Water table
0cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)