HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080648390
Bassin de Ribeira de Sapateira
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 13 administrative regions : Alvaiázere, Ansião, Castanheira de Pêra, Ferreira do Zêzere, Figueiró dos Vinhos +8
Sub-basin area
599,7km²
Upstream area
2 993,4km²
Discharge
39,47m³/s
Mean elev.
408m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rio Zêzere834 km²
- Bassin de Rio Unhais341 km²
13 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Figueiró dos VinhosLeiria · Portugal171.6 km²28.6% of basin
- SertãCastelo Branco · Portugal130.2 km²21.7% of basin
- Pedrógão GrandeLeiria · Portugal113.3 km²18.9% of basin
- Castanheira de PêraLeiria · Portugal58.5 km²9.7% of basin
- AlvaiázereLeiria · Portugal46.6 km²7.8% of basin
- Ferreira do ZêzereSantarém · Portugal34.5 km²5.7% of basin
- AnsiãoLeiria · Portugal30.5 km²5.1% of basin
- 11.4 km²1.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Serra da Lousã
IUCN Not ReportedSite of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)
47.95 km² overlap
Sicó / Alvaiázere
IUCN Not ReportedSite of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)
9.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 731 distinct species · 24 975 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 Ribeira de Sapateira : 29 espèces reliées par 108 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 13.2%, 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°
14,7°C
Annual rain
1 025mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,02
Runoff
393mm/an
PET
1 043mm
AET
675mm
Mean slope
8,9°
Water table
363cm
Forest
98%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)