HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080664080
Bassin de Ribeira Grande
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 10 administrative regions : Alter do Chão, Arronches, Avis, Borba, Elvas +5
Sub-basin area
1 138,3km²
Upstream area
1 138,3km²
Discharge
7,76m³/s
Mean elev.
276m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
10 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- MonfortePortalegre · Portugal365.1 km²32.0% of basin
- FronteiraPortalegre · Portugal211.1 km²18.5% of basin
- 194.7 km²17.1% of basin
- AvisPortalegre · Portugal120.0 km²10.5% of basin
- SouselPortalegre · Portugal112.0 km²9.8% of basin
- 67.8 km²5.9% of basin
- 49.4 km²4.3% of basin
- 9.7 km²0.8% of basin
2 moreFull L2 list
- Alter do Chão8.1 km² · 0.7%
- Portalegre1.3 km² · 0.1%
3 intersecting protected areas
Vila Fernando
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
26.70 km² overlap
Veiros
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
19.59 km² overlap
Monforte
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
18.87 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 844 distinct species · 93 135 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 Ribeira Grande : 28 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 49 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 9.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
16,4°C
Annual rain
665mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
208mm/an
PET
1 172mm
AET
560mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
232cm
Forest
19%
Crops
65%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)