HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080171580
Bassin de Helliskvísl
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 : Holta- og Landasveit, Rangárvallahreppur, Villingaholtshreppur
Sub-basin area
325km²
Upstream area
3 466,2km²
Discharge
197,03m³/s
Mean elev.
536m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tungnaá1265 km²
- Bassin de Kaldakvísl274 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 308.2 km²94.2% of basin
- 13.9 km²4.3% of basin
- 5.0 km²1.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Fjallabak
IUCN VNature Reserve
127.15 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
147 distinct species · 366 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 Helliskvísl : 16 espèces reliées par 41 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 13.7%, 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°
2,1°C
Annual rain
1 424mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,78
Runoff
1 794mm/an
PET
316mm
AET
316mm
Mean slope
6,5°
Water table
0cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
39%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)