HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080619950
Bassin de Rio Douro
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 : Freixo de Espada à Cinta, Torre de Moncorvo, Vila Nova de Foz Côa
Sub-basin area
146,3km²
Upstream area
80 846,8km²
Discharge
379,56m³/s
Mean elev.
406m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Côa2513 km²
- Bassin de Ribeiro da Cabreira41 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
3 intersecting protected areas
Douro Internacional e Vale do Águeda
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
13.80 km² overlap
Vale do Côa
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
0.10 km² overlap
Douro Internacional
IUCN VNature Park
0.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
605 distinct species · 5 777 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Douro : 22 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 84 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 15.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
14,0°C
Annual rain
808mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,26
Runoff
286mm/an
PET
1 089mm
AET
626mm
Mean slope
11,1°
Water table
459cm
Forest
72%
Crops
12%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)