HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080378450
Bassin de River Avon
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 : NA
Sub-basin area
748,4km²
Upstream area
2 839,2km²
Discharge
32,36m³/s
Mean elev.
70m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de River Alne330 km²
- Bassin de River Avon119 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- NAEngland · United Kingdom543.4 km²72.3% of basin
- NANA · United Kingdom196.8 km²26.2% of basin
- NAEngland · United Kingdom11.1 km²1.5% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Cotswolds
IUCN VArea of Outstanding Natural Beauty
158.23 km² overlap
Bredon Hill
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
3.84 km² overlap
Bredon Hill
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
3.61 km² overlap
Cleeve Common
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
2.72 km² overlap
Site of Special Scientific Interest
1.07 km² overlap
Tiddesley Wood
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.81 km² overlap
Trench Wood
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.62 km² overlap
Grafton Wood
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.59 km² overlap
Grafton Wood
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.50 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Bredon Hill
IUCN IVNational Nature Reserve
0.49 km² overlap
Croome Park
IUCN VNature Reserve
0.44 km² overlap
Severn Ham, Tewkesbury
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.35 km² overlap
Avon Meadows
IUCN IVLocal Nature Reserve
0.23 km² overlap
Nunnery Wood
IUCN IVLocal Nature Reserve
0.21 km² overlap
Dovers Hill
IUCN VNature Reserve
0.20 km² overlap
Rectory Farm Meadows
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.16 km² overlap
Rabbit Wood
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.16 km² overlap
Broadway Hill
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.15 km² overlap
Dixton Wood
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.13 km² overlap
Dixton Wood
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
0.13 km² overlap
Foster's Green Meadows
IUCN IVNational Nature Reserve
0.12 km² overlap
Foster's Green Meadows
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.12 km² overlap
Littleworth Wood
IUCN VNature Reserve
0.12 km² overlap
Local Nature Reserve
0.11 km² overlap
Wylde Moor, Feckenham
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.11 km² overlap
Broadway/Clump Farm
IUCN VNature Reserve
0.11 km² overlap
Cleeve Prior Bank
IUCN IVLocal Nature Reserve
0.11 km² overlap
Cooksholme Meadows
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.08 km² overlap
Windmill Hill
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.06 km² overlap
Rookery Cottage Meadows
IUCN IVSite of Special Scientific Interest
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 402 distinct species · 527 756 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Avon : 17 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 139 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 28.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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°
9,5°C
Annual rain
659mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,02
Runoff
392mm/an
PET
674mm
AET
512mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
112cm
Forest
0%
Crops
62%
Urban
6%
Protected
21%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)