HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080612980
Bassin de Rio Poio
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 6 administrative regions : Cabeceiras de Basto, Mondim de Basto, Montalegre, Ribeira de Pena, Vila Pouca de Aguiar +1
Sub-basin area
238,3km²
Upstream area
2 219km²
Discharge
46,76m³/s
Mean elev.
747m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Tâmega999 km²
- Bassin de Rio Beça333 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Ribeira de PenaVila Real · Portugal113.5 km²47.6% of basin
- Vila Pouca de AguiarVila Real · Portugal56.5 km²23.7% of basin
- Cabeceiras de BastoBraga · Portugal54.0 km²22.6% of basin
- MontalegreVila Real · Portugal8.1 km²3.4% of basin
- Mondim de BastoVila Real · Portugal5.3 km²2.2% of basin
- 1.2 km²0.5% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Alvão / Marão
IUCN Not ReportedSite of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)
110.00 km² overlap
Alvao
IUCN VNature Park
1.27 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 121 distinct species · 54 945 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 Poio : 17 espèces reliées par 66 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 22.0%, 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°
11,9°C
Annual rain
1 297mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,25
Runoff
743mm/an
PET
961mm
AET
684mm
Mean slope
10,1°
Water table
431cm
Forest
89%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)