HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080611740
Bassin de Rio Beça
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 : Boticas, Cabeceiras de Basto, Montalegre, Ribeira de Pena
Sub-basin area
333,1km²
Upstream area
333,2km²
Discharge
8,34m³/s
Mean elev.
816m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- BoticasVila Real · Portugal167.7 km²50.3% of basin
- MontalegreVila Real · Portugal97.1 km²29.1% of basin
- Ribeira de PenaVila Real · Portugal37.1 km²11.1% of basin
- Cabeceiras de BastoBraga · Portugal31.6 km²9.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 263 distinct species · 33 598 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Rio Beça : 19 espèces reliées par 70 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 19.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
11,4°C
Annual rain
1 292mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,28
Runoff
787mm/an
PET
928mm
AET
675mm
Mean slope
9,5°
Water table
397cm
Forest
94%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)