HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080639220
Bassin de Rio Zêzere
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 : Belmonte, Covilhã, Fundão, Gouveia, Guarda +3
Sub-basin area
746,3km²
Upstream area
746,3km²
Discharge
10,68m³/s
Mean elev.
714m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
3 intersecting protected areas
Serra da Estrela
IUCN VNature Park
202.63 km² overlap
Serra da Estrela
IUCN Not ReportedSite of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)
202.38 km² overlap
Estrela Mountain upper Plateau and upper Zêzere River
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
30.69 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 549 distinct species · 64 352 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Zêzere : 26 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 75 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
12,9°C
Annual rain
1 112mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
397mm/an
PET
969mm
AET
645mm
Mean slope
9,6°
Water table
407cm
Forest
63%
Crops
30%
Urban
3%
Protected
27%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)