HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080581260
Bassin de Río Nalón
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 1 administrative regions : Asturias
Sub-basin area
70,2km²
Upstream area
1 664,5km²
Discharge
39,6m³/s
Mean elev.
309m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ríu Ayer933 km²
- Bassin de Río Nalón661 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 70.3 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Río Nalón
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.04 km² overlap
Cueva de las Caldas
IUCN IVNature Reserve (Parcial)
0.53 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 470 distinct species · 14 420 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Río Nalón : 27 espèces reliées par 124 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 13.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 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°
12,7°C
Annual rain
844mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,07
Runoff
741mm/an
PET
913mm
AET
671mm
Mean slope
11,7°
Water table
442cm
Forest
83%
Crops
3%
Urban
34%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)