HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080620340
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 8 administrative regions : Armamar, Lamego, Moimenta da Beira, Peso da Régua, Sabrosa +3
Sub-basin area
351,4km²
Upstream area
90 573,1km²
Discharge
493,41m³/s
Mean elev.
577m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Torto597 km²
- Bassin de Rio Távora533 km²
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- ArmamarViseu · Portugal107.5 km²30.6% of basin
- Moimenta da BeiraViseu · Portugal93.3 km²26.5% of basin
- TabuaçoViseu · Portugal52.2 km²14.8% of basin
- SabrosaVila Real · Portugal45.1 km²12.8% of basin
- Peso da RéguaVila Real · Portugal33.8 km²9.6% of basin
- 13.4 km²3.8% of basin
- 5.3 km²1.5% of basin
- TaroucaViseu · Portugal1.2 km²0.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Alvão / Marão
IUCN Not ReportedSite of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)
0.42 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 685 distinct species · 20 215 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 Rio Douro : 29 espèces reliées par 94 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 11.5%, 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°
13,2°C
Annual rain
1 170mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,10
Runoff
541mm/an
PET
1 044mm
AET
687mm
Mean slope
11,3°
Water table
484cm
Forest
74%
Crops
33%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)