HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080594040
Bassin de Río Esla
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 : Asturias, Cantabria, León, Palencia
Sub-basin area
2 544,9km²
Upstream area
2 544,9km²
Discharge
40,95m³/s
Mean elev.
1 199m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2545.4 km²99.9% of basin
- 2.6 km²0.1% of basin
- 1.0 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.0% of basin
23 intersecting protected areas
Regional Park
903.26 km² overlap
Picos de Europa en Castilla y León
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
902.18 km² overlap
Picos de Europa en Castilla y León
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
902.18 km² overlap
Montaña Central de León
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
48.93 km² overlap
Rebollares del Cea
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
16.77 km² overlap
Picos de Europa
IUCN IINacional Park
8.67 km² overlap
Picos de Europa
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
8.50 km² overlap
Picos de Europa
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
8.50 km² overlap
Riberas del Río Esla y afluentes
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
3.34 km² overlap
14 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Liébana
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
1.03 km² overlap
Liébana
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.03 km² overlap
Liébana
IUCN Not AssignedNatura 2000
1.03 km² overlap
Liébana
IUCN Not AssignedNatura 2000
1.03 km² overlap
Ponga-Amieva
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.88 km² overlap
Ponga-Amieva
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
0.88 km² overlap
Ponga
IUCN VINatural Park
0.88 km² overlap
Redes
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.57 km² overlap
Redes
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
0.57 km² overlap
Redes
IUCN VINatural Park
0.57 km² overlap
Aller-Lena
IUCN Not ReportedSite of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)
0.27 km² overlap
Fuentes Carrionas y Fuente Cobre-Montaña Palentina
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
0.24 km² overlap
Fuentes Carrionas y Fuente Cobre-Montaña Palentina
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.24 km² overlap
Montaña Palentina
IUCN VNatural Park
0.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 142 distinct species · 164 405 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Esla : 23 espèces reliées par 91 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 15.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
9,0°C
Annual rain
768mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,14
Runoff
520mm/an
PET
907mm
AET
588mm
Mean slope
11,4°
Water table
454cm
Forest
67%
Crops
18%
Urban
0%
Protected
36%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)