HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080270370
Bassin de River Spey
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 2 administrative regions : Highland, Moray
Sub-basin area
187,2km²
Upstream area
2 620km²
Discharge
62,19m³/s
Mean elev.
276m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de River Avon523 km²
- Bassin de River Spey204 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Moray179.2 km²95.2% of basin
- Highland9.0 km²4.8% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
River Spey
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
2.73 km² overlap
River Spey
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
2.07 km² overlap
Burn of Ballintomb
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.21 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 436 distinct species · 39 105 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 River Spey : 20 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 118 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 22.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
6,8°C
Annual rain
820mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,34
Runoff
582mm/an
PET
539mm
AET
462mm
Mean slope
5,8°
Water table
499cm
Forest
18%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)