HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080636330
Bassin de Rio Dão
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 14 administrative regions : Aguiar da Beira, Carregal do Sal, Fornos de Algodres, Mangualde, Mortágua +9
Sub-basin area
1 370km²
Upstream area
1 370km²
Discharge
27,75m³/s
Mean elev.
442m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
14 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 316.1 km²23.0% of basin
- TondelaViseu · Portugal305.6 km²22.3% of basin
- Aguiar da BeiraGuarda · Portugal139.7 km²10.2% of basin
- Penalva do CasteloViseu · Portugal134.3 km²9.8% of basin
- SátãoViseu · Portugal97.4 km²7.1% of basin
- MangualdeViseu · Portugal92.7 km²6.8% of basin
- Santa Comba DãoViseu · Portugal80.3 km²5.9% of basin
- Carregal do SalViseu · Portugal70.1 km²5.1% of basin
6 moreFull L2 list
- Nelas62.4 km² · 4.5%
- Mortágua33.2 km² · 2.4%
- Fornos de Algodres30.1 km² · 2.2%
- Vouzela9.4 km² · 0.7%
- Oliveira de Frades0.2 km² · 0.0%
- Trancoso0.1 km² · 0.0%
1 intersecting protected areas
Carregal do Sal
IUCN Not ReportedSite of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 702 distinct species · 84 058 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Dão : 22 espèces reliées par 82 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 16.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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
1 127mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
603mm/an
PET
1 040mm
AET
691mm
Mean slope
5,9°
Water table
352cm
Forest
86%
Crops
4%
Urban
5%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)